Africa Cape Verde The island of Fogo could benefit from an investment of about US€2 million for the renewable energy sectors and mobilization of water for both human consumption and agriculture after more than 30 surveys were carried out in the island
Africa Djibouti Thanks to the development of Arabic and English, the country has emerged from the linguistic isolation inherited from a century of French colonisation and has become a de facto trilingual country
Africa South Africa Desmond Tutu, Anglican archbishop and activist known for his battle against apartheid in the 1980s, turns 90 today amid a new wave of racism in the country
Africa Sao Tome and Principe The country met the World Health Organisation's first global target by vaccinating more than 10% of the population by the end of September
Africa Central African Republic The Special Commission of Inquiry, set up following numerous documented UN reports, has published a counter-report in which it denounces that many incidents are unproven and only 8 can be attributed to national forces
Africa Tanzania The Tanzania Coffee Board, the government body managing the coffee sector, said it has started taking steps to increase crops productivity from the current annual harvest of around 70.000 tonnes to 300.000 tonnes by 2025
Africa South Sudan Women are active and effective in the fight against malnutrition, as backyard gardens are helping them to achieve self-sufficiency and supplement local food markets
Africa Algeria The country handed over a report in which it deemed unacceptable French President Macron's comments on the country's colonial history, recalling the millions of martyrs who sacrified their lives in the resistence against French colonialism
Africa Comoros The United Arab Emirates has delivered Arabic-language educational curricula for the kindergarten stage as part of its desire to support the teaching of the language in the country
Africa Botswana For the Cyber Awareness month, CyberSmart BW launched the CyberSmart Champions Network, a peer-to-peer cyber awareness initiative with the aim of educating young people on how to stay safe online
Africa Uganda Ten farmer groups in West Nile have received US$30.000 from the Dutch government to increase the cultivation of new high-yielding varieties to directly combat poverty in their households
Africa Mauritania A new 10 GW green hydrogen project, with a total area of 14,400 km², could include Africa's first offshore wind farm
Africa Angola 650 farming families in the province of Uíge will benefit, until the end of this year, from mechanized help for the practice of family farming, as part of the Integrated Program for Local Development and the Fight against Poverty