Africa

With traffic volumes expected to rise along the N3, a key economic corridor and a busy leisure routes, during Easter school holidays, law enforcement, emergency services, towing operators, volunteers will be deployed on standby to respond to incidents

Medicins continue to be out of stock in a number of public health facility, despite the government pledged to improve access to medicines nationwide

Five women's cooperatives involved in rice parboiling have received new equipment including large-capacity soaking tanks, eco-friendly stoves, parboiling units; the Food Resilience Systems Program in West Africa aims at cutting losses and raising output

A growing number of corpses are being found in public spaces; Freetown started burials for sanitary and humanitarian reasons and asked government to investigate on the use of drugs as cause of death, but the matter was solved issuing 'removing' policies

For this year’s golden jubilee celebrations a dedicated website has been launched; www.gov.sc/anniversary was officially unveiled during a ceremony in Praslin, coinciding with the International Day of Forests

UNDP in Sao Tomé has published two notices: the hiring of a national consultant to promote training in women's leadership with a dedicated project and a list of items on sale due to office renewal

Agricultural policy is taking a new direction with a deliberate transition towards industrialization; following a year 2025 of exceptional harvests, administration is now focused on transformation, with agro-industrial parks as the main driver

World Tuberculosis Day has been celebrated at Gasabo District headquarters in Kigali under the theme “Together we can end tuberculosis”; the number of deaths has declined from 77 per 100.000 people in 2000 to 3,4 in 2024, a 95,6% reduction

Liberia and Barbados signed a historic visa waiver agreement; with political consultations, it is expected to unlock new opportunities in trade, labor mobility, and cultural exchange in a wider frame of strengthening South-South cooperation

Journalist Loughty Dube, head of the Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe, has been elected as the first chairperson of the Southern African Press Councils; the newly formed body supports regional efforts for media accountability and press freedom

UnIA, the Independent University of Angola, will host today the Grand Lecture on Angolan Diplomacy, a meeting to promote an in-depth analysis of the advances, challenges, and perspectives of national diplomatic action

Egypt aims to generate over €10 billion in fashion exports by 2031 according to AECE data; Egyptian apparel exports grew 11% year-on-year in January, with a boom to EU countries, reaching €114,4 million in the opening of 2026 (+26%)

A drone hit a hospital in East Darfur, killing 64 people and wounding 89, in the latest episode of strikes on health facilities in Sudan; WHO says the ongoing war is can be considered the worst humanitarian crisis in the world