Africa Burundi Church leaders visited the Prime Minister of Burundi, making donations to the hospital built by the First Lady in the centre of the country to extend access to health services to more people
Africa Botswana China donated personal protective equipment and reproductive health products to the country in an operation made in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Africa Republic of the Congo The government has decided to end timber exports, with forestry companies now having to process all their production locally in order to create more jobs; many NGOs question the problems with this decision
Africa Namibia The National Housing Enterprise has made known that the strike for which 90% of its employees voted will affect service delivery
Africa Mozambique The US Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, speaking in Maputo, said it was necessary to intensify efforts to combat terrorism in Cabo Delgado as part of a global response
Africa Somalia Pam's executive director stated that the support of donors such as the US and Germany had made it possible to slow down the famine in Somalia, but emphasised that "we are not out of the woods yet"
Africa Burkina Faso After some protests against the presence of French troops, the ruling military junta asked Paris to withdraw within a month the special session task force Sabre, present in the country since 2010
Africa Ethiopia According to data compiled by Quartz, the country lost $145,8 million due to government-imposed internet blackouts in 2022 that directly harmed over one million people
Africa Niger In six years health authorities managed to halve the number of women who died of haemorrhage during childbirth by adopting a series of simple procedures and administering an inexpensive drug, according to a study published in medical journal The Lancet
Africa South Africa Scheduled blackouts due to the inability of the state-owned energy company Eskom to ensure a sufficient supply of energy resulted in the death of 40.000 chickens on an industrial farm in the country
Africa Zambia Zambia Forestry and Forest Industries Corporation is committed to improving support for the promotion and establishment of forestry outsourcing schemes by individuals and communities as a means to combat global warming
Africa Rwanda Rwandan army anti-aircraft fired at and hit a fighter jet of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Fardc) yesterday that had 'violated Rwandan airspace'
Africa Liberia Liberia, West Africa's most forested country, with rainforests covering about two-thirds of its territory, has seen about 22% of the nation's tree cover lost to deforestation since 2000