Over 5,6 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, purchased by the Ugandan government for $7,3 million with a World Bank loan, have expired and will now be withdrawn from health facilities and destroyed

The third edition of the Ouidah book fair, part of the Vodun festival, features lectures, debates, film screenings, an exhibition and books to discuss and reflect on African history, heritage and ancestral values

Families of school-age children challenge the government's decision to impose tuition fees in US dollars; tuition fees are set in US dollars, while parents and guardians can pay in local currency at the exchange rate on the date of payment

All 15 miners trapped for four days in a Zimbabwean gold mine have been rescued, in news given on social media X with video showing the mud-covered workers being greeted by a small cheering crowd at the mine site

Afua Asantewaa Aduonum, a journalist by profession, broke the record for the longest singing marathon by an individual and officially entered the Guinness World Record, singing hundreds of consecutive Ghanaian songs for a total of 110 hours

Almost 900 fighters of the Chadian rebel group Ufdd have returned with the aim of joining the disarmament process; this return is the consequence of the signing of the Doha Agreement in August 2022

Entries are open for Boost'Anim, the first animated film competition organised by the Ivorian Animated Film Association, which will award prizes to the three best productions to be presented in the form of short films

About seventy Gambian migrants deported from Tunisia and attempting to get back home have been denied entry into Mali and are now are stranded on the border after traveling through several countries, says Abubacarr Kinteh, one of the stranded men there

Monsignor Kpodzro, Archbishop Emeritus of Lomé, an intransigent, even disruptive voice against the President Faure Gnassinbgé, has died; he had been living in exile in Sweden for almost three years, following the presidential elections in 2020