Dengue patients are to receive free consultations, tests and treatment in public facilities as Chad expands hospital capacity. Newly disclosed cemetery records have intensified concern about deaths in N’Djamena, although their medical causes remain unknown.
WFP says insufficient funding forced it to miss September’s regular emergency food-distribution cycle, with exceptions for Adré and new arrivals. The interruption sharply reduced assistance to a caseload made up mainly of Sudanese refugees.
People in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger gain higher electronic-wallet limits and free small transfers between participating financial providers. The rules took effect on 2 November, but equal pricing for cross-border transfers comes later.
A partially collapsed access ramp has stopped underground mining at all three active entrances to Endeavour’s Mana gold mine. Workers were evacuated without injury, but the company has not set a restart date.
A new transport agreement gives Essar’s Askaf project access to Mauritania’s national railway and offers SNIM another revenue stream. Official and company documents, however, give substantially different production timetables.
Newly released household-survey findings show lower poverty and better access to water and health services since 2019. Yet more than half the population still faces overlapping forms of deprivation.
Travellers say armed checkpoints are extracting money separately from buses and passengers, forcing some people to borrow cash to complete their journeys.
Niger's Mines Minister met Uranium One and TENEX officials to review an existing memorandum, days after accusing France of sabotage at the UN, with roughly 1,000 tonnes of disputed uranium still offered for sale.
France 24, La Croix and Benin Web TV retrospectives mark Ibrahim Traoré's fourth anniversary in power, days after he told reporters the state could take over importing certain goods via the agency FasoYaar.
