By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on RFI
Students at the University of Nouakchott are continuing their strike to demand better accommodation, the reinstatement of grants and more buses. They consider the measures announced by Mauritania’s Ministry of Higher Education insufficient and are calling for a direct meeting with the minister, RFI reports.
In Mauritania, 9,926 students registered in Taazour’s social register will receive free urban transport. Of these, 9,762 study in Nouakchott and 164 in Nouadhibou, according to Mauritania’s Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Source: Kassataya ·
Mauritanian Prime Minister Moctar Ould Diay has formed a new government of 29 ministers after being reappointed by the head of state. Energy Minister Mohamed Ould Khaled, who was implicated after fires at two Somelec power stations in Nouakchott, has been dropped, RFI reports.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Source: RFI ·
Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology and the Chinese Embassy in Sierra Leone have inaugurated a Chinese teaching classroom on the Makeni campus. The programme will enable students to learn the language and discover Chinese culture as part of an educational and cultural partnership between the two countries, Sierraloaded reports.
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone · Source: Sierraloaded ·
Mauritanian Prime Minister Mokhtar Ould Djay criticised officials at a health centre in Dar Naim for failing to provide a water supply despite a budget of 700 million ouguiyas. During an inspection of construction sites in Nouakchott, he also described employment, education and public services as priorities, reports Lecalame.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Source: Lecalame ·
Mauritania denies officially claiming LagouiraMauritanian government spokesman Mohamed Ould Bebana says Nouakchott has made no official territorial claim concerning Lagouira. He also said Mauritania had no dispute with its northern neighbours after a Council of Ministers meeting, according to Kassataya.
Ghanaian woman reveals two children are not her husband’sAbena Ampomaa, from Adumang in the Ashanti Region, admitted that two of the three children raised by her husband Shaibu Mohammed may not be his biological children. She apologised to him on a television programme, explaining that she had concealed their paternity for years out of fear of his reaction.The week in Africa
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