Africa Sudan Sudanese artist Mutaz al-Fateh has been using special recipes to create his unique paintings for years, using natural ingredients such as ground coffee, tea leaves and fruit peel shavings
Africa Malawi The country will launch malaria vaccine for children between five and 22 months by the end of this year
Africa Benin In the W National Park in the north of the country, rangers who are supposed to exclusively protect wildlife and carry out anti-poaching activities are increasingly involved in anti-terrorism activities, Reuters reported
Africa Namibia Namibia's hunting season begins today: game birds, the big game species of kudu, oryx and red elk, the smaller springbok and warthog species can be hunted
Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo Apple, Tesla and Intel are the main global industrial groups accused by the latest report of Global Witness to use for their products minerals and rare earths from the country, extracted irresponsibly, often by child labor, in very risky conditions
Africa Republic of the Congo After Congolese Rumba was inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list in December, the director general of the French Institute in Pointe-Noire stressed that the creation of infrastructure can only bring added economic value
Africa Morocco The Moroccan ceramic city of Safi is planning a candidacy for UNESCO intangible cultural heritage status; the National Museum of Ceramics has helped to highlight the craft and also the city on a national and international level
Africa Rwanda Along the lines of the recent agreement with the UK on asylum seekers, the country is also in talks with Denmark on a new procedure for the transfer of asylum seekers
Africa Morocco Plans to reform higher education will focus on strengthening language learning, particularly English, promoting digital technology and teaching skills required in the labour market
Africa Sierra Leone The country, thank to the US President's Malaria Initiative to fight the disease, has since 2017 received to date $76 million and registered a decline in infected children: from 40% in 2016 to 22% in 2021
Africa Somalia Some 500.000 people have been displaced by the severe drought that has ravaged several parts of Somalia in the first three months of 2022, UNHCR reports
Africa Tanzania The country is home to East Africa's only billionaire, according to the latest Africa Wealth Report 2022
Africa Zimbabwe Small shops selling solar panels and other solar energy products are increasingly appearing in the major cities; they are actually fake solar panels, a new market fuelled by the drought-related energy crisis that the government is struggling to combat