Africa

Maternal mortality rate is still high in the country, indicates Gambia Medical Research Council, together with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: surveys of 2019-2020 report 289 deaths per 100.000 live birth

Mauritanian security forces are believed to have played a role in the post-election violence and at least three deaths after incumbent President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani's presidential election victory last week

7,6 million Zimbabweans, almost half the population, are in need of aid given the severe drought in the country, the UN has reported; in June, the UN appealed for $429 million, but funding has been slow to materialise

The Tanzanian butterfly forest has been recreated in Italy to raise awareness for biodiversity research; various species flutter freely in 600 square metres of forest inside a greenhouse at the Trento Science Museum

French-Beninese citizen Kemi Seba, a well-known pan-Africanist activist in both France and West Africa, has been stripped of his French citizenship for his strongly anti-Western analyses cloaked in pan-Africanism

Google will help train 8.000 young Nigerians in creative industries through Engage Nigeria, a programme that has already trained 20.000 Nigerians in digital technology last year

Homosexuality will be made illegale in the country upon decision of the council of ministers of the junta; it has been legal in Burkina Faso since 1996, although homosexuals and LGBT+ activists in the country have often faced difficulties

Abidjan has given the go-ahead for the establishment of a US base in Odienné, north-west Ivory Coast, from where Sahelian jihadist groups can threaten the Gulf of Guinea countries

The ruling military junta in Mali and the Russian state nuclear company Rosatom signed three cooperation agreements and discussed projects, including a Russian-designed low-power nuclear power plant

The president of the Armwrestling Federation of Africa will travel to Benin where he will have a meeting with the Minister of Sport and the President of the Olympic Committee to strengthen ties in the West African region

The peace talks in South Sudan, which have almost come to an end, have hit a snag with opposition groups calling for the elimination of a newly passed law allowing the detention of people without arrest warrants

The dispute over Gabon's payments with the World Bank is apparently resolved, the authorities said; the Ministry of Public Accounts said the arrears have been repaid to the institution

The coming out of Brenda Biya, 26, daughter of the President of Cameroon and aspiring rapper living in Switzerland has caused a scandal; she hopes her story will help change the law against homosexuality, currently punishable by up to five years in prison