Africa Sao Tome and Principe WFP has delivered a batch of IT equipment as part of the institutional capacity building of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development in the collection of agricultural survey data
Africa Benin Within the measures undertaken since 2016 in the decentralization sector, the recent reform for improving and depoliticizing the municipal administration was initiated by targeting the exchange on the life of municipalities through various themes
Africa Tunisia Date producers are hit by a serious decline in the quality of their harvests due to low rainfall; according to the president of the Union of Local Farmers of Tozeur prices have fallen so severely that producers are no longer able to cover production costs
Africa Botswana A national strategy for nursing and midwifery for 2020-2024 has been launched by the Ministry of Health and Welfare in an effort to provide quality healthcare: it comprises topics including education and training, regulation, leadership and research
Africa Guinea In the framework of its mission to support the state, the German development agency GIZ intends to contribute to the improvement of access to basic education, equal opportunities and quality of education with a new targeted programme
Africa Comoros The French NGO Terres d'ophtalmologies began its activities today with the start of cataract operations on 40 Comorian patients already selected
Africa Chad Republic Day, celebrated today in the country, commemorates the fact that the country became an autonomous republic within the French Community on this day in 1958; the country remained a French territory until achieving full independence in August 1960
Africa Gambia After the government launched a polio vaccination campaign with immunization as a top priority, efforts are facing skepticism due to the distrust towards Covid-19 vaccines
Africa Lesotho The information collected and recorded electronically by data collectors in districts across the country will be used to create the country's first national register of farmers under the FAO-supported project
Africa Togo WAEMU-securities agency said the country's first issue on the regional money market for Q4 2021 was successful, raising CFA55 billion - nearly US$95.000.000; the bonds will have a maturity of 15 years and will finance the economic recovery
Africa Central African Republic The United Nations Office for Project Services has signed a "Headquarters Agreement", with the aim of formalising cooperation in the field of infrastructure, in particular the construction of roads crucial to linking communities
Africa Sierra Leone Since 2018, the annual number of students passing the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) has increased by 60%, 39.029 students nationally; for the first time, the BECE has recorded more female than male pass rates
Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo Two rappers arrested and charged in recent months have defended themselves in court against charges of insulting the army and the president in their works, which condemn the government's failure to stem the bloodshed in the conflict-torn east