Biosphere Reserves were inscribed in Haiti, Kazakhstan, and Sao Tome and Principe for the first time this year.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

The other countries to benefit are Ivory Coast, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, and Sudan.

BBC: Brazil 'to write off' almost $900m of African debt

This is the situation in the great majority of African countries with the exception of Botswana, Burundi, Cape Verde, Madagascar, Mauritius, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, and Togo.

UNESCO: Africa needs one million new teachers by 2015

To mark the 10th anniversary of the competition, CNN and Multichoice added a general news Lusophone category thereby expanding the competition further to include entries in Portuguese from Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and Sao Tome and Principe.

CNN: Landmark 10th anniversary Awards to be held in Nairobi

To mark the 10th anniversary of the CNN African Journalist of the Year competition, CNN has also announced the addition of a general news Lusophone category thereby expanding the competition further to include entries in Portuguese from Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and Sao Tome and Principe.

CNN: CNN African Journalist of the Year Competition