Africa

Algerian musical genre raï has been inscribed on the UNESCO intangible world heritage list, which concluded yesterday the 17th session of Intergovernmental Committee for Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Morocco

President Bazoum gave a long speech on Thursday evening at the Luiss University in Rome, on the occasion of the meeting entitled "Italy, Niger, Europe, Africa. Two continents, one destiny" for the cooperation among the two countries

Belgian Friends of The Gambia, an international organisation, donated to 47 sponsored students attending the Nyodema Kindergarten and Bakoteh Annex Lower Basic School 33 50kg bags of rice, educational, health and agricultural items

Cameroon became the first African team to ever beat Brazil at a World Cup; despite the victory, the team finished third in its group and was eliminated

It was supposed to end today, in Bobo-Dioulasso, the 20th edition of the National Culture Week, postponed to a date to be determined by the government due to the insecurity in the country

Vice President Nalumango called for strong collaboration between government and cooperating partners to eliminate hunger and all forms of malnutrition in the country, saying government alone cannot effectively and comprehensively address the problems

Date lovers attended 4th International Date Festival, that opened its doors in Khartoum on 30 November; with an annual production of around 330.000 tonnes, the country ranks eighth among the world's most important date-producing countries

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has accused a group of data analysts, Team Pachedu, of using 'terrorist tactics' to try to hack into its system and destabilise the country's electoral processes

The Tunisian online newspaper Business News has decided to boycott the early parliamentary elections in Tunisia, the campaign for which began on 25 November, thus not covering the elections

The country has started a large-scale childhood vaccination campaign against malaria, the first campaign of its kind in the world; Malawian health authorities are using the only vaccine against the disease recommended by the WHO

Angola's attorney general, Helder Pitta Groz, has issued an arrest warrant for Isabel dos Santos, daughter of former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, considered the richest woman in Africa, for mismanagement and misappropriation of public funds

Many farmers, with government assurance, have switched their sugarcane crops to Hass avocados; the soil and climate favour avocado cultivation and they are considered among the best even compared to the world's top ten exporters, like neighbouring Kenya