Africa

The Women’s Rise Observatory, with Business & Professional Women Gabon BPW Gabon and the Bank for Commerce and Entrepreneurship of Gabon BCEG, launched 'Rising Star Gabon 2026' aiming to identify, support and promote projects led by women entrepreneurs

The ASHO delegation, responsible for distributing toys sent by the Vice President of the Republic to all children in Equatorial Guinea, reached the Riaba district, using as a facility the Riaba Municipal Stadium

Walta Awards, cultural and arts competitions organized by the Ministry of Defense ended at Cinema Roma in Asmara with the victory of Egri-Mekel troupe from the Central Command, it covered dance, music, theater, directing, painting and narrative

35th anniversary of 13 January, Democracy Day, a public holiday marking Cape Verde's first democratic elections in 1991, will see the inauguration of the Monument to Freedom and Democracy, academic focuses, events in the diaspora, music festival

One million sheep will be imported for Eid al-Adha celebrations upon President's decision to support the national livestock market; the minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries will immediately take the necessary actions

Redefining environmental decentralization, Malian government adopted two decrees transferring new powers to local authorities in the areas of sanitation, pollution control, and forest and wildlife resource management

Mauritania and Senegal signed a parliamentary cooperation protocol in Nouakchott, setting the frame of enhanced collaboration between the two legislative institutions

An escalating crisis of gender-based violence, with an alarming rise in the killing of women, most often at the hands of their intimate partners, prompted renewed calls for urgent and coordinated action in what is definite a 'national outcry'

A number of M-pox cases confirmed in Madagascar prompted Comoros authorities to step up vigilance and alert professionals and residents in order to prevent any possibile spread in the archipelago

Primary education has been marked by three changes this year: Modular Assessments in science and history-geography has ended, impacting grade 6 students; the possibility to take PSAC resit exam in three subjects; the possibility to repeat grade 6

With 2026 finance law several fiscal innovations have been introduced, signaling a shift toward more targeted economic and social tax objectives; to strengthen compliance and revenue collection certified electronic invoicing has been implemented