Africa

The World Bank predicts massive population growth for the country within the next 2 decades: Tanzania could reach 140 million people by 2050 from the current 68,8 million

A project has been launched to strengthen power distribution capacity in the central region with the laying of 34 km of 20 KV medium-voltage grid, construction of 61 MV/LV distribution substations and installation of 360 km of low-voltage grid

A new customs support project, funded by USAID, has been launched to improve airport procedures, with a focus on passenger handling and cargo processing

The country will produce 600.000 tons less grain this year than it would need, FAO estimates

The country will export locally produced insulin injections to Cuba for the first time through the United Company for Pharmaceuticals, an affiliate of the Acdima Group

Siphiweka Baleka, a North American-Guinean athlete, denounced the existence of a "web" of corruption, discrimination and fraud in the swimming federation and at the level of the Guinea-Bissau Olympic Committee

Food supplies are enough to cover the month of Ramadan and even beyond - Minister of Trade, Regional Integration and Employment Baboucarr Ousmaila Joof said

The Ministry of Transport, in collaboration with the Seychelles Ports Authority, invites contractors to submit their prequalification application for the Port of Victoria rehabilitation and expansion project

The Parliament has to decide on a bill to restrict the use of surrogacy to women who are infertile or have health problems that prevent them from having children; the law provides for penalties of up to five years for doctors who oppose the new provisions

Paul Kagame is again a candidate in Rwanda's presidential election, to be held next July 15, in a choice made "uncontested" by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, the party always led by Kagame, who is thus running for a fourth consecutive term

Eswatini denied reports that it had offered nationality to citizens of other southern African countries to make up for the population crisis

Nigerian breweries has announced another increase in the price of its products, the fourth in one year, due to rising production costs and the need to save the company's accounts from such an increase

Incidents cast a shadow over the start of the election campaign in Senegal this weekend with violent clashes between supporters of presidential majority candidate Amadou Ba and those of opponent Bassirou Diomaye Faye