Africa

A €29.000 women's community garden in the village of Boraba, 300 kilometres from Banjul, has been inaugurated by the German ambassador to The Gambia

The “She Leads” project to support entrepreneurship for women in the cities of Tripoli and Sabha were launched at an event in the Old City, Tripoli; it aims at training over 80 women to facilitate their entry into the labour market

The leader of the Social Democratic Party, Pierre-Claver Maganga Moussavou, called on Gabonese people to vote 'no' in the 16 November referendum on the new constitution that proposes, among other things, a 7-year presidential term, renewable once

The Sierra Leone Electoral Commission inaugurated in Freetown the Regional Symposium and General Assembly of the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions for 2024

Prudence Tangham Galega, legal expert and judge, was honoured with the Global Biodiversity Law and Governance Leadership Award, a major international environmental award, during Cop 16 on biodiversity in Cali, Colombia

There is growing concern about cross-border crimes at government level; authorities emphasised that these episodes threaten security not only on the Zambian-DRC border but in the entire Central African region

A group of lawmakers presented a bill that aims to impose an absolute ban on all economic relations between Algerian companies and foreign companies with ties to Israel

Emperor Tewodros II's shield, an artefact looted from Ethiopia during the Battle of Magdala in 1868 against the UK, has returned to the country after 156 years

A midwifery training centre has been inaugurated; called the 'Angel of Life Midwife Training Centre', the first of its kind in the country, it has the specific goal of reducing infant mortality rates

To achieve the desired goals in controlling the public procurement process, CAR will receive support from the World Bank, which will mainly concern the reform of the public procurement code and the introduction of digitisation in the process

Angola ranked 4th among the 18 Central and Southern African countries for the best response to HIV-AIDS, according to the Global HIV-AIDS Surveillance Agency, behind Botswana, Namibia and South Africa

Prime Minister Jugnauth acknowledged the 'serious defeat' of his coalition, the Alliance Lepep, in the parliamentary elections held on Sunday; his rival Ramgoolam, leader of the Alliance of Change coalition, thus marks a remarkable political comeback

Artisanal gold miners in the El Uweinat mountain range, near the Egypt-Libya-Sudan tripoint, called for intervention by Sudanese authorities after an Egyptian army unit attacked them 'in Sudanese territory'