Africa

The only female presidential candidate Fawzia Yusuf Haji Adam in announcing her candidacy for president openly stated it is time for women to lead the country

In the great challenges poised this year to the shipping industry, CMA CGM will launch a new feeder service to ensure regular routing of containers to/from the country

The president of the Guinean Platform of Non-State Actors in Fisheries and Agriculture has openly defended the fight against destructive and illegal fishing practices

The installation of the first beam for the Metro Express has been carried out at Curepipe central station, where road traffic congestion is a daily problem

The two-day forum of businessmen from Tanzania and Burundi to discuss issues as investment opportunities in the two countries also expects of the two Presidents

Local experts underline how rural and urban schools are at risk of falling behind in the country's push towards digitization of education, thus widening the already large gap between disadvantaged schools and those in affluent areas

The renovation of the Dibiya Secular Primary School, a block consisting of three classrooms, a directorate, two latrine blocks of 3 cabins by the United Mining Supply company through Wazni Foundation has been completed for more than 3.500 students

The manufacture of a made-in-Algeria electric car is being taken into consideration by the National Economic, Social and Environmental Council

Anthropologists studying the country's endangered lemurs are working with local communities for the breeding of alternative protein sources, as families hunt at least one lemur per year for food

A team of researchers and agronomists have found traces of a wild coffee known as Coffea stenophylla, a discovery that has generated great excitement over its potential to revolutionize the global coffee sector

Local authorities in Butambala district have protested against a move by the National Forest Authority to replace indigenous trees in the Nawandigi Central Forest Reserve with exotic tree species, not suited for the soil and environment

The PRIASA-II project management has announced the call for tenders for the purchase of furniture for the processing units; the project will disseminate new techniques on quality, conservation, processing and marketing of produce

€21 million will be given by Italy to fund the activities of the so-called Libyan Coast Guard and detention centres in the country, just as Amnesty international published a new report on violations and abuses in detention centres in the first six months