By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on RFI
The Mauritanian National Navy intercepted 204 West African migrants at sea on 27 October, including 20 minors and 10 women. The group was taken to reception centres in Nouadhibou, according to sources close to the migration case.
Mauritanian company Maurilog and Danish transport and logistics group DSV have formed a partnership to offer integrated services to businesses and support major projects in Mauritania. Announced in early October at the Port of Nouakchott, their cooperation builds on a relationship of more than 25 years, according to Le Calame.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Source: Le Calame ·
Mauritania’s minister of national education announced the approval of internal examinations providing for the recruitment of 30 basic education inspectors. The examinations also include the promotion of 30 inspectors, 200 teaching officers and 100 lower-secondary teachers, according to Kassataya.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Source: Kassataya ·
Two police officers and a civilian were injured on 28 October during an armed attack on a police station, a security post and the prefect’s residence in Fundong, in Cameroon’s North-West Region. The attackers were repelled by security forces, according to Governor Adolphe Lele Lafrique.
🇨🇲 Cameroon · Source: StopBlaBlaCam ·
The Ebola outbreak linked to the Bundibugyo virus had reached 10,172 confirmed cases and 4,932 deaths in five countries and territories by 26 October, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Africa CDC is urging African countries to strengthen cross-border co-operation to contain the spread, MyJoyOnline reports.
🇨🇩 DR Congo · Source: MyJoyOnline ·
Power cuts mount in NouakchottNouakchott has endured repeated power cuts for two weeks, while a fire broke out this week in Teyarett, following earlier fires in Toujounine and Tevragh-Zeina. The Mauritanian Electricity Company cites an overload, but this is seen as an insufficient explanation amid mounting incidents, according to Kassataya.
Illustrative imagePolio vaccination to begin on 7 November in two areas of NasarawaNigeria’s Nasarawa State will hold a polio vaccination campaign from 7 to 10 November in the Nasarawa and Keffi areas, after two suspected cases were reported. The operation is to draw on media mobilisation and community awareness, according to Nasarawa’s Primary Health Care Development Agency, cited by Punch.The week in Africa
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