Africa

'Tanga', meaning 'sail' in Swahili, is the name of the house run by Polish missionaries to provide a safe home for albino children in Tanzania

Egypt has offered to deploy peacekeeping troops in the country as part of a security partnership that is taking shape as the mandate of a long-standing African Union peacekeeping force comes to an end

The Autumn Flower of the International Flower Expo 2024 was held at the El-Horreya Garden in Zamalek, Cairo; the Expo has a history of over 90 years and attracts major exhibitors

The ban on night navigation on the waters of Lake Kivu was imposed a week after yet another tragic shipwreck claimed at least 78 lives

A joint mission of the government, UN and diplomatic corps took place in Kaga Bandoro, in the region controlled by armed groups for a decade, to see the progress made so far

The Confucius Institute of Seychelles confirmed that some 3.600 Seychellois have used its services over the past 11 years

A collaboration to start the process of repatriating human remains seized during French colonial rule has been announced by the Ministers of Culture of France and Madagascar

Testing of the vaccine against the Marburg virus has begun and priority will be given to health workers currently on the front line of efforts to prevent the spread of the disease in the country, where a small epidemic is underway

African Rivers, a Zambia-based international conservation organisation, has voiced its opposition to plans to cull elephants in southern Africa following the recent severe drought in the region

President Tebboune stressed the need for private school curricula to be in line with national ones; the note came from the Council of Ministers he chaired on 6 October and indirectly hits to past issues on francophone curricula

The GALAB-Global Accelerator Lab project has been launched in Mauritania to combat child labour, trafficking and exploitation in the region upon initiative of the International Labour Organisation

Civil society groups in Malawi have called on the government to review its position on the Gaza conflict, criticising diplomatic and economic ties with Israel as a contradiction to the nation's core values of peace and respect for humanity

The director of the Liberia Media Empowerment Project, Samuka Konneh, urged journalists to emphasise fact-checking in their work to ensure that accurate information is provided to the public