Africa Mauritania The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has launched an emergency fundraising appeal to help the Mauritanian Red Crescent expand its response to the influx of Malian refugees
Africa Kenya The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has decided to block Telegram throughout Kenya to 'fight against exam fraud'
Africa Eritrea Bail of NIS 84.000 (€5.300) has been posted the Eritrean government by to release its citizens from Israeli prison that had been involved in violent riots, vandalism and theft earlier this year in Tel Aviv
Africa Cape Verde An Engineering, Procurement, and Construction tender for a 10 MW solar project in Cidade da Praia, on the southern coast of Santiago, the archipelago's largest island, has been launched by Cape Verde's Ministry of Industry, Trade and Energy
Africa Egypt After Children Cancer Hospital 57357 met top standards and is the first hospital in Egypt, second in the Middle East, to be awarded the GAMSAS accreditation, Minister of Health stated that Egypt is fully committed to preventing antimicrobial resistance
Africa Eswatini Penuel Malinga, secretary general of Eswatini's main and largest political party, visited the family of Raymond Mthembu, a University of Eswatini student who committed suicide because of delays in the payment of allowances by the government
Africa South Africa The government blocked the sending of food and water supplies to a group of miners hiding inside an illegal gold mine to force them out and then arrest them; many are undocumented migrants, who also do not leave for fear of being deported from the country
Africa Seychelles An in-depth review of the national biodiversity strategy and action plan was initiated at an initial stakeholder meeting to align national biodiversity targets with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Africa Gambia 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
Africa Libya 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
Africa Gabon 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
Africa Sierra Leone The Sierra Leone Electoral Commission inaugurated in Freetown the Regional Symposium and General Assembly of the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions for 2024
Africa Cameroon 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