Debates begin in The Gambia’s National Assembly on the country’s 2025 budget with differing suggestions from members of the House on allocations

• Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament rejects calls by the Majority MPs to recall the House to address some 22 urgent government business items

• And, a new report in Cote d’Ivoire shows that there were more than 3,500 cases of pregnancies recorded in schools in the year 2023