Africa Mauritius A training farm in aquaponics and hydroponics as well as a solar water drip has been inaugurated at the Mauritius Prison Service in Beau Bassin to facilitate women prisoners’ transition and reintegration into the community
Africa Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea's Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons signed three production sharing contracts with Panoro Energy and Africa Oil Corporation
Africa Central African Republic The Réseau des Artistes pour le Développement intends to organise a large concert in support of the Central African Armed Forces, called 'Liberate My Country'
Africa Cameroon The government has stated that the killing of journalist Salomon Mbani Zogo last month is now being used as a pretext to put state of Cameroon itself on trial, pointing to French newspaper Le Monde and Reporters without Borders as primarily responsible
Africa Burundi The Burundian government has launched a campaign to entice refugees living in Tanzania to return home, in an attempt to convince the international community that the country is safer
Africa Sao Tome and Principe The PAS project - Sustainable Agri-Food Policies - organised a Seminar on the Evaluation of Micro-initiatives and presented the results of the 13 micro-initiatives supported within the project
Africa Sierra Leone Africell, a Sierra Leone-based mobile phone company, has donated beach cleaning equipment worth thousands of dollars to two top clean-up organisations at its Lumley Beach Road branch
Africa Uganda Dairy Development Authority officials have assured farmers and all dairy industry partners that Uganda will soon enter Algeria with the country's milk powder as the nation seeks to expand its market
Africa Mauritius International Women’s Day will be celebrated on 5th March this year instead od 8th March - said Minister of Gender Equality and Family Welfare Mrs Koonjoo-Shah - to promote greater participation of women at the celebrations to be held in Pailles
Africa Niger The government adopted the plan to establish a National Council of Women of Niger, a body for the 'consultative promotion and protection of women's rights'
Africa Morocco Financial Action Task Force decided to remove the country from the enhanced monitoring process after assessing the country's compliance with international standards to combat money laundering and terrorist financing
Africa Libya The approval of the 13th amendment to the constitutional declaration by the Libyan House of Representative and the High Council of State has been hailed by Egypt as an "important" step towards the holding of elections in Libya
Africa Guinea World Radio Day was celebrated Sunday in Labé, in a much-awaited ceremony at the 'Ka Werdé' cultural centre, with delegations from several rural radio stations in Guinea and the public and private media