Africa

The IMF through a 9 months Staff-Monitored Program will help the country build a track record of implementing policies and reforms to stabilize the economy, improve competitiveness and strengthen governance

The country has pledged to support the national education sector by increasing the share of the national budget dedicated to education towards the global benchmark of 20 %

President Samia Suluhu has largely revised the late president's anti-Covid policy, which advocated prayer and natural products, by focusing on the vaccination campaign and security measures

Moving towards genetically modified crops is seen by government's biosafety agency as a very useful option to achieve its food security objectives and reduce dependence on imports

The country's electoral commission is seeking assistance from Nigeria to learn more about how to integrate biometric technology into the voter registration process and address the potentially high cost of the technology

As part of a clean-up campaign in Plaine des Papayes, bins were handed out to 2.500 families in the regionm

The country is the most vulnerable as professional cybercriminals from around the world target Africa's burgeoning population of mobile phone users - as the 'State of Mobile Fraud in Africa' reported

The country - the first African to be paid to protect its forests - have now received a total of US$17 million out of US$150 million promised by Norway for results-based emissions reduction within the Central African Forest Initiative

Some 30 members of the National Movement of Pioneers of Senegal gathered in the premises of the Red Cross in Thies to revitalise and give new direction and perspectives to the group created since 1960

MUNISCA confirmed finding 13 dead civilians 300 km North of Bangui; neither circumstances nor authors have been identified, but national authorities are pointing fingers at the CPC rebel coalition

Blackearth - a mining company - has completed the Bankable Feasibility Study (BFS) stage of its Maniry project and has gained port access to export graphite concentrate; it still hasn’t disclosed its plans of community engagement or forms of social impact

Civil society has strongly criticised the anti-LGBT bill that has landed in parliament, which some associations see it as "an embarrassment to the country and a danger to free speech"