Africa Niger Niger and Burkina Faso have withdrawn from G5 Sahel, institutional framework for the coordination and monitoring of regional cooperation in development and security policies; with Mali retired last May, only Chad and Mauritania remain
Africa Nigeria An $80 million loan from the African Development Bank will finance Ekiti Knowledge Zone project in Nigeria to promote digital innovation and entrepreneurship, generate 26.000 jobs and bring about $14 million a year in net economic benefits
Africa Mozambique Additional 28 fully-funded scholarships from Partnership with Ocean Countries Programme for students in Mozambique and Senegal has been launched by the Association of Commonwealth Universities and the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture
Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo Many young people have started a social battle to get people to quit smoking through vaping, with viral videos attracting the attention of thousands of users on Tiktok about the terrible conditions they undergo to extract cobalt, which also involve minors
Africa Guinea-Bissau An Ecowas communiqué 'strongly condemns the violence and all attempts to disrupt the constitutional order and the rule of law in Guinea-Bissau', calling for 'the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators'
Africa Ethiopia Trócaire's Christmas Appeal aims to bring children displaced by the conflict back home, more than a year after the peace agreement that ended two years of war in the Tigray region
Africa Eritrea Around the hospital in Halibet, the Ministry - through its local branch- has created a model farm, where organic fertilisers, both liquid and solid, are applied, and crops of wheat, potatoes and pulses are rotated
Africa Cameroon The Bloggers Demo School programme will start today the 6-month training for 22 young people in blogging and content production
Africa Gambia The country's remittance inflow from January to September 2023 amounted to US$ 564,1 million, an increase of 4,5% compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, confirmed the Governor of the Central Bank of The Gambia
Africa Somalia The UN Security Council has decided to lift the arms embargo imposed on Somalia since 1992, with a resolution stating that its 'primary objective is to reduce the threat from Al-Shabaab'
Africa Kenya Vice President Rigathi Gachagua said the government will begin to provide full transparency on President William Ruto's foreign travels starting in January
Africa South Sudan Former NBA player Luol Deng's foundation inaugurated the NBA Junior League and a new basketball court in South Sudan, setting the stage for the tournament early next year
Africa Tanzania A group of organisations is launching a study to evaluate emergency response tools for severe malaria cases in rural areas in Tanzania, Zambia and DR Congo, and to seek further care in remote settings where transfer to health facilities is not feasible