Africa

Angola's Palancas Negras have won the 2022 Africa Cup of Women's Handball; as in 2021, they beat Cameroon in Saturday's final in Senegal

The new president of the Basketball Federation of Guinea-Bissau, Claudomiro Almeida, has chosen as his priority the redevelopment of infrastructure to enable athletes to practice in the country's domestic competitions

An expedition on the trail of dinosaurs led by US paleontologist Paul Sereno, already famed as extraordinary, is coming to an end in northern Niger after nearly a month of research

Strategic and innovative measures to increase milk production in the country and bridge the gap between supply and demand, now being offset by imports from neighbouring countries, have been proposed by the governemnt

A national campaign to plant trees in areas with water sources has been launched by vice-President Philip Mpango, to protect them and create sufficient water reserves for human use

It kicked off in Abidjan Football for Schools, an ambitious programme run by FIFA that combines sport and education; it is the first country in West Africa and the fifth on the continent to join the programme that seeks to make football more accessible

An identification and registration operation for social welfare associations has been launched by the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs in Libreville, Owendo and Akanda

The country has 16,3% of premature babies - continent average is around 10%

Young activists intensified the use of social media to spread awareness about waste disposal and environmental protection in Benin to harness the public attention raised by the ongoing UN climate talks

The city of Maseru has experienced rapid urbanisation and a growth of informal settlements that has led to an increase in the population living in slum conditions, both central and local authorities have reported

UN praised Morocco's new education reform plan for 2022-2026, a strategy that will contribute to the "success" of the public school enterprise in the country

Oranjemund has become the 4th city with a landfill site after the municipality fenced off a portion of land in the north of the city, a few metres away from the current landfill site, where no recycling activities take place

23 auditing firms were suspended for six months after failing to meet the necessary audit quality standards; the Institute of Certified Public Accounts of Rwanda, the country's auditing body, stated that the firms would not be allowed to operate