West Africa’s top court on Thursday ordered Sierra Leone to revoke a ban on pregnant girls in school, a move activists hope could lead to challenges against similar laws across Africa. Sierra Leone’s ban was adopted in 2015 as teenage pregnancies rose during an Ebola epidemic. In October, the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary […]
Tunisia’s independent electoral Commission, ISIE, announced the extension of the legislative elections candidacy bids submissions to October 27. The deadline was hit on Sunday October 23. The commission said Monday it had received 1068 candidacies in addition to 181 coming female candidates. The extension of the deadline, according to the electoral body, is meant to […]
Xlinks, which plans to export renewable energy from Morocco to the UK, said it is also assessing feasibility of other links with markets including Germany. This came in a statement in response to a Bloomberg article claiming the British company is abandoning the UK for the German market. “Xlinks was founded to promote the development […]
