The Southern African Development Community (SADC) on Thursday decided to send a technical team to Mozambique to assess the country's needs in the fight against terrorism, the organization said.

Italian oil company ENI-SPA announced Tuesday in Luanda that it plans to invest USD seven billion over the next four years in research, production, refining and solar energy.

Due to the pandemic, tourism came to a virtual standstill in Africa last year. The financial strain experienced by the travel sector was also felt by conservation groups, which depend on tourism to increase traffic in the parks, which can ward off poachers, and also to uplift local communities that might otherwise succumb to illegally hunting for bushmeat. A number of groups set out to counteract this. Wilderness Safaris, for example, delivered 6,000 food parcels in 2020 to families in remote areas of Botswana, Kenya, Rwanda, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zambia.

The National Health Directorate reported today that the epidemiological situation in Cabo Verde has worsened in the last 14 days, and the incidence accumulated rate at national level increased from 128 to 253 per 100.000 inhabitants.

Former leaders of both the MpD and PAICV parties, which dominate Cabo Verde politics, plan to stand in October’s presidential elections, but the two parties’ leaderships have agreed to formally decide on support for candidates only after this month’s legislative election is over.

Nigeria has been drawn in Group B for the 24th edition of the Africa Women Handball Championship alongside host, Cameroon, DR Congo and Kenya.