Africa Ethiopia Only 3% of high school graduates in Ethiopia have obtained sufficient marks to go to university, according to Education Minister Berhanu Nega, who recently called the latest exam results "shocking"
Africa Senegal A group of Senegalese civil society organisations and citizens have filed a complaint with the Dakar court asking the judiciary to deal with the case of mismanagement of Covid-19 funds
Africa Ghana The country is optimistic that the ongoing negotiations with the IMF to obtain the fund's support by March will have positive outcome, with issues related to the domestic debt swap programme, one of the requests, "virtually concluded"
Africa Sudan Sudanese forces that did not subscribe to last December's framework agreement reached by the ruling military with the Forces for Freedom and Change announced the creation of a new political coalition and roadmap to solve the crisis
Africa Gambia President Adama Barrow said a special tribunal should be set up to try those named in the enquiry report that examined crimes committed under the previous government of Yayha Jammeh
Africa Mali The country closed to any possible new cooperation with France as bilateral ties no longer met Bamako's national interests, an announcement that came after talks with Russian diplomacy chief Sergey Lavrov
Africa Comoros 21 MPs out of 24 approved the bill "fixing the number of electoral constituencies for the election of members of the Assembly of the Union of the Comoros"
Africa Angola Four hundred and six people, constituting 293 families in the Humpata municipality, who used to roam the streets of Lubango town, Huila, begging for alms, have been resettled by the government in their areas of origin
Africa South Africa A report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime GITOC, released in 2022, claims that South Africa has increasingly become a centre of organised crime, transcending national borders
Africa Mozambique Analysts said TotalEnergies' decision to ask a human rights expert to carry out an assessment on Cabo Delgado is aimed at taking the French oil company off the hook over the future of its presence in Mozambique
Africa Tanzania Test results indicated that nickel concentrate from Lifezone Metals' Kabanga nickel project in Tanzania can be processed with the company's proprietary hydrometallurgical technology that can significantly reduce carbon emissions
Africa Guinea A delegation from the Alteo France Group, a world reference in specialty alumina production taken over by UMSI in 2021, visited Conakry to view the site of the future Conakry alumina vocational training institute
Africa Gabon The country has launched a project for five agricultural zones designed to lead it towards food self-sufficiency, but also to diversify its economy, with India's support