The United States-Africa Summit brought together several African leaders in Washington to chart new horizons in cooperation between the two sides, in various domains.

South Africa, which has always refused to condemn Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, has announced the organization of joint maneuvers with the Russian and Chinese navies along its coast.

The President of Algeria, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, announced the construction of a gas pipeline, which will connect the country to Italy, with the aim of increasing exports of gas, hydrogen, ammonia and electricity.

Luxembourg will support Cape Verde in space defence, within the scope of a satellite that the European country will launch later this year, hoping to improve surveillance and patrolling of the archipelago's territorial waters.

Former journalist and anti-apartheid activist Frene Ginwala, president of South Africa's first democratically elected National Assembly and the first woman to hold the post, recently died at the age of 90, the South African Presidency announced. Frene Ginwala died at her home, having suffered a stroke two weeks earlier.