Africa Rwanda The Funnel Foundation's Edified Generation scholarship programme has received a donation from Vivo Energy Rwanda to sponsor ten bright secondary school students from vulnerable families
Africa Sao Tome and Principe In the next academic year each student in Príncipe will have a laptop identical to the 1,020 distributed this week in the city of Santo António
Africa Zimbabwe Some enterprising young people are creating music and songs to remind people of the dangers of the coronavirus and to promote the country's premier tourist destination, Victoria Falls
Africa Sudan The gold mines could make the country Africa's third largest gold producer in just a few years: nine concessions put up for sale by the country's authorities in recent days have found buyers in record time at record prices
Africa Nigeria Danish owned dairy co-operative Arla Foods will build a commercial dairy farm in the north of the country, where it will train and support up to 1,000 local dairy farmers
Africa Gambia The Kanifing Municipal Council has started a two-years project consisting in of the construction of two access roads, three fire hydrants, an open shed, two toilet blocks and the installation of 30 solar lights
Africa Lesotho The office of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child has been recently inaugurated in Maseru
Africa Burundi EU financial restrictions on the country - sanctioned from 2016 for human rights violations - will be removed and aid will resume its course, initially allowing the rehabilitation of the port of Bujumbura, in partnership with the African Development Bank
Africa Kenya Family Group Foundation has started the selection process for the 2021 scholarship programme for needy students in eleven counties
Africa Libya The unity government has reopened the coastal highway linking the country's east and west, closed for two years due to local fighting hazards
Africa Guinea The country has been officially declared Ebola-free, having passed the mandatory 42-day period with no new confirmed or probable cases, goal described as an "impressive milestone" by the UN Children's Fund's regional director for West and Central Africa
Africa Mauritius In the newly announced budget measures, health has been put at the centre to guarantee the country's economic recovery, in particular the sustainability of national vaccination campaign
Africa Ivory Coast The International Finance Corporation and the African Development Bank's Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa will work together to increase the skills, incomes and access to finance of thousands of smallholder women farmers