By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on L'Express de Madagascar
The National Conference on the Refoundation of Education will bring sector stakeholders together at the International Conference Centre in Ivato on 30 November and 1 December 2026. It will focus on three priorities: quality of teaching, school governance and access to school, according to L’Express de Madagascar.
Madagascar’s Ministry of Energy and Hydrocarbons handed the Antananarivo Urban Commune six hundred Cobra-type streetlights at a ceremony on Monday 9 November 2026 at the Analakely town hall. Three hundred will be distributed at fifty per district, and the other three hundred will be managed directly by the municipality, according to L’Express de Madagascar.
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Source: L'Express de Madagascar ·
In Madagascar, one person dies of AIDS every day, while a hospital in Antananarivo records three to five deaths a week among 19- to 25-year-olds, according to the National Programme to Combat Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV/AIDS. HIV campaigners are warning of falling funding for prevention and the fact that condoms now have to be paid for, L’Express de Madagascar reports.
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Source: L'Express de Madagascar ·
El Hadj Yacouba Ouattara, an Ivorian inspector of pre-primary and primary education in Touba, was honoured after 37 years in the national education system. He is due to retire on 31 December 2026, after serving as an inspector from 1998 to 2026, according to AIP.
🇨🇮 Ivory Coast · Source: AIP ·
The 23rd edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival, scheduled for 20 to 28 November, will pay tribute to the American actors Jeff Goldblum and John Turturro and to the Moroccan artist Younès Mégri. The festival celebrates three singular artistic careers, according to a statement from the organisers.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Source: L'Information ·
Football: GNFC of the gendarmerie remain top of Madagascar’s D2GNFC, the national gendarmerie team, remain top of Madagascar’s second division with 25 points after a 2-2 draw with Racing FC d’Antsiranana, played at Betongolo. According to NewsMada, the club could be declared champion if it wins its next match.
Vanessa Munezero teaches sewing to young people in MuhangaVanessa Munezero, born in 1996 in Gashibuka, turned to sewing after failing the state examination required to access post-basic studies. Trained at Buntu Secondary Technical School, she is now appreciated in Muhanga for her skills and willingness to teach the trade to other young people, reports Iwacu.The week in Africa
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