Africa Malawi Illovo Sugar Malawi Plc dismiss rumors of potential sugar shortages, saying that the post circulating on social medias inviting the public to stock up is false
Africa Equatorial Guinea The members of the Standing Committee on the Constitution and Regime of State Institutions are currently analysing the Draft Law on Public Bodies with a view to adapting, enriching and perfecting all aspects of the regulatory text
Africa Madagascar The RN10, a road linking Ambovombe to Analavory in the regions of Androy and Atsimo Andrefana, will be completely tarmacked and work will begin before the end of this year, thanks to US$400 million obtained from the WB
Africa Mauritania Welcoming the launch of Mauritania's report to the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI), Abdoulaye NDIAYE, Oceans Campaigner at Greenpeace Africa, urged Senegal to follow Mauritania's example in the transparency of industrial fishing licenses
Africa Senegal The validation report granted to the national strategy for the protection of children will establish a system of protection and promotion of children's rights based on three pillars: prevention, care and support
Africa South Sudan The UN humanitarian coordinator visited South Sudan last weekend to assess needs on the ground and personally meet people affected by ongoing violence and natural disasters
Africa Burundi In 2018, the country launched a vast national reforestation programme to increase the declining forest cover, which will run until 2025; factions formerly at war are now working together on the project
Africa Guinea-Bissau The ECOWAS stabilisation force in the country will initially consist of 631 soldiers and is expected to arrive in Bissau "within a few days"
Africa Liberia The Nimba County Senator, by donating a power saw and five hundred bags of cement, has started the construction of a $500.000 bridge over the Yar River, which will connect towns and villages
Africa Libya UNHCR has welcomed the release of 35 migrants, including women and children, from a detention centre in the Libyan capital Tripoli, with the agency estimating that it has secured the release of 129 people from detention so far this year
Africa Namibia A relief loan from the Development Bank of Namibia Covid-19 has helped preserve about 950 jobs by providing US$53 million in funding to pay salaries of employees of the tourism and hospitality operation Gondwana Collection
Africa Republic of the Congo The Republic of Congo will hold the presidency of the Order of Architects of the ECCAS-CEMAC area for a period of two years under the leadership of Antoine Beli Bokolojoué
Africa Uganda In a laboratory in Mbarara, a team is using a demo to listen closely to vascular sound in dialysis patients, using an early detection device designed by Mbarara University of Science and Technology to curb stroke