Africa Mozambique Electoral registration for the elections scheduled for 9 October has been completed: in 45 days, the process aimed at registering 7.773.696 potential citizens
Africa Niger The country organised its first Digital Week in Niamey, a national meeting bringing together experts and actors from the digital world, around the theme 'digital and sovereignty' with more than 4.000 participants from 15 countries
Africa Nigeria March average daily crude oil production declined to 1,2 million barrels from 1,3 in February, continuing last year's trend; Nigerian oil production faces crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism causing huge losses and incalculable environmental damage
Africa Libya The country has become Africa's top crude oil producer; a further increase in the price of Brent crude, to around $90 per barrel, would represent a key for recovery for the economy
Africa Botswana Herds of endangered hippos, stuck in the mud of dried-up ponds, risk death in drought-stricken Botswana, conservation authorities made known, while at local level are calling for hippos to be relocated to reserves to protect villagers
Africa Egypt Egypt and Italy will collaborate to establish a centre for artificial intelligence in Cairo, with the aim of promoting the development and use of Ai throughout Africa; the agreement was signed in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital
Africa eSwatini STEM Sisters, a new mentoring programme, teaches coding, robotics, engineering to young girls in rural areas; according to UNICEF, only 46% of girls complete secondary education, with pregnancy and poverty as major factors
Africa Ghana The Savings Lives Entity, a project of UNDP and other agencies, was launched to tackle the proliferation of small arms in Ghana
Africa Djibouti The shipwreck of a boat with migrants off the coast of Djibouti claimed at least 16 lives; in 2023, over 700 people died along the eastern route considered by the UN agency to be 'one of the most dangerous and complex migration routes in the world'
Africa Angola The Cuanza-Norte Provincial Department of Forestry Development Institute needs over 100 inspectors to control and prevent poaching, illegal fires and illegal exploitation of forest resources
Africa Benin Focusing on culture is part of Benin's strategy to stimulate economic growth: the government is building 4 new museums in different locations and a cultural district in the largest city, Cotonou, as well as increasing investment in arts education
Africa Gambia The National Water and Electronic Company, with funding from the World Bank, laid the foundation stone of a $66 million electricity project called ECOREAP, which will electrify over 298 communities
Africa Uganda A study conducted by the Universities of Stirling and Wisconsin-Madison on a forest in western Uganda shows that indiscriminate, large-scale logging of forests and natural environments inevitably causes changes in animal behaviour