Africa

For residents of economic capital Douala it is a routine to get up early and queue outside a brewery to fill water bottles: unreliable public water service makes water drilling profitable

According to a new report, 43.000 people have died in Somalia last year due to the longest drought on record; half of them were children

Fiat cars factory in Tafraoui, Oran, will be ready by the end of August; it will generate around 600 direct jobs from its start-up and is expected to reach 2.000 over the next three years

A new association, 'Telegraf', was created to bring poets together and to transmit messages, knowledge and cultural know-how with children

US State Department found 'credible reports' of human rights violations by security forces in the country

Traditional yellow taxis in Khartoum, which have been operating since the 1970s, are facing the growing threats of more modern transport services, with customers booking their rides through apps on their smartphones

East African Community is once again calling for lower intra-regional roaming for data, voice calls and SMS within the One Area Network; the country charges the highest rates and is under pressure to join regional call network

Supreme Court overturned a decision by lower court in 2021 to grant citizenship to a gay couple's son born in South Africa as they failed to comply with the law by registering the birth with the Namibian authorities within one year

16th edition of Afrik Fashion Week, which took place in Abidjan, brought together 30 designers and 60 models from different African countries, around the theme 'Youth, Fashion and Cultural Diversity'

There are dozens of Senegalese citizens being repatriated from Tunisia and Libya; after the words of the Tunisian President, the country set up a crisis unit and registered its citizens wishing to return

Over 400 members of the Front for Alternation and Concord, arrested after the death of former president Idriss Déby Isno in 2021, have been sentenced to life imprisonment

Excessive use of force by Sierra Leonean security was found to have been used to suppress protests that turned violent in Freetown, Makeni and Kamakwie in August 2022 with more than 20 people killed