Africa

Opibus, a startup, is working towards a zero-emission public transport system by retrofitting into diesel and petrol buses electric motors that have the capacity to travel over 250 km a day on a single charge

Rabat has been designated cultural capital of the Islamic world for 2022 by the World Islamic Organisation for Education, Science and Culture, in recognition of the successful implementation of an urban and cultural development programme launched in 2015

The container terminal at the autonomous port of Conakry has received four new gantry cranes, adding to the eight already in force

The Anjos da Noite project is working very well, with the coordinator reporting that it has distributed more than 21.000 hot meals and carried out more than 3.000 clean-up actions for the homeless in the city of Praia in four years

An EU-funded project is introducing new methods to help farmers with productivity; in particular, a new variety of rice, which takes only three months to mature, is a hope for the country's growing population

The energy minister has outlined a series of plans that include resuming work on an abandoned floating LNG project, which, in order to exploit national gas resources, will be developed in a cross-border manner

As the country's campaign and elections draw nearer, the Senior Programme Officer of the National Council for Civic Education has warned politicians to desist from any form of vote buying

The CEO of the Rwanda Green Fund, which has mobilised US$216 million to finance public and private projects, has revealed that the government aims to have a minimum of 30% of the fund's total commitments to the private sector

Through the Higher Education for Economic Transformation program, government will build the Mwalimu Nyerere University of Technology and Agriculture in Butiama; land acquisition, master plan and environmental and social impact assessment are underway

Several partners, including the African Union, the EU and the UN, among other foreign nations, have expressed concern over continued delays in the Somali electoral process, calling on leaders to hold parliamentary elections without further delay

The country will be suspended from duty-free access to US markets as of 1 January; the decision is grounded on serious violations of human right as well as lack of progress in establishing the rule of law, political pluralism and labour rights

Residents of the 13 sub-areas of Asmara and three other sub-areas in the central region are electing their area administrators, chief executive officers and village coordinators in 83 administrative areas