Africa Benin The Miokpehou project has been created to enable young women to improve not only their football skills but overall life chances through sport, by playing for their country at international level
Africa Ivory Coast The addressing project in the Abidjan district has begun; funded by World Bank, it aims at giving names and street numbers to houses in 13 municipalities, with a total of 12.000 streets in 3 years
Africa Mozambique A lion has been spotted in Zinave National Park, in the southern Mozambican province of Inhambane, for the first time in several decades, according to a press release from the Peace Parks Foundation
Africa Egypt The Administrative Judicial Court of the Council of State rejected a lawsuit filed by two lawyers to block the "TikTok" application in the country on the grounds that it incites immorality, pornography, bullying, and violence among teenagers
Africa Djibouti With over 100 containers shipped weekly, the new direct transport service connecting the country with port of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, is a great opportunity for local trade
Africa South Africa Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Anglican cleric, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize as he led the fight to end apartheid in his country, has died at the age of 90
Africa Algeria The national delegate for the protection and promotion of children, Meriem Cherfi, stressed the importance and urgency of creating a new digital platform to protect children and promote their rights
Africa Central African Republic The 7th edition of the Bangui Marathon - a sporting promoting peace in the country - was held thank to the support of sponsors, ALLSPORT and the Ministry of Sport and Humanitarian Action and National Reconciliation
Africa Morocco International e-commerce company Fulfillment Bridge, founded by Kais Khadraoui in Hong Kong, now offers its global fulfillment solution in Morocco, helping local businesses reach customers everywhere with precision and punctuality
Africa Zimbabwe Former minister-in-exile Walter Mzembi has named Chief Murinye of Masvingo as the country's person of the year for standing up to President Emmerson Mnangagwa on corruption
Africa Namibia Gratomic, a graphite mining and trading company, donated US$35.000 worth of goods, including a set of new clothes, shoes and blankets to give every child in the Shandumbala orphanage a better Christmas
Africa Seychelles A newly launched biometric corridor at Seychelles airport uses the face as a passport; with a matching time of less than one second per traveller, the biometric corridor checks an average of 30 travellers a minute, allowing faster, contactless screening
Africa Cameroon A training session on traditional Chinese medicine was given to 50 doctors and nurses from the gynaecological, obstetric and paediatric hospital in Yaoundé as part of the 21st Chinese medical mission to the country