Established in 1965, Brikama Area Council covers the whole of the West Coast Region — 1 764 km² reaching from the Atlantic coast inland, some 30 km from Banjul. It is The Gambia's largest local government by population, spread across nine districts, 28 wards and roughly 260 villages, and accounts for a substantial share of … Continued

Kerewan Area Council is the local government authority for The Gambia's North Bank Region, headquartered in the riverside town of Kerewan with a second office at Barra, the ferry gateway opposite Banjul. The region spreads across the Baddibu and Niumi districts along the north bank of the River Gambia, where groundnut farming, rice, horticulture and … Continued

Kloto I is the commune covering Kpalimé, Togo's fourth-largest town, in the Plateaux Region about 120 km north-west of Lomé and close to the Ghanaian border. Set among the hills of the Kloto plateau beneath Mount Agou and Mount Kloto, it is surrounded by fertile country producing coffee and cocoa, and is widely regarded as … Continued

Paynesville lies immediately east of Monrovia and is Liberia's most populous city, home to some 617 000 residents — a strikingly young population, with almost half under the age of 25. Once a suburb of the capital, it has grown into the country's fastest-expanding commercial centre, with livelihoods concentrated in services alongside agriculture and manufacturing. … Continued

Beau Bassin-Rose Hill is Mauritius's third-largest town, set in the Plaines Wilhems district on the central plateau between Port Louis and Quatre Bornes, with some 147 000 residents across ten localities. Its twin identity is written into its name — a pond to the north gave “Beau Bassin”, while “Rose Hill” recalls the rosy light … Continued

Basse Area Council is the local government authority for the Upper River Region, the easternmost part of The Gambia, with its seat at Basse Santa Su on the south bank of the River Gambia. Long a crossroads of upriver trade between the coast and the interior, Basse is known for its bustling market and cross-border … Continued

The District Council of Grand Port, seated at Rose Belle, serves the villages of south-eastern Mauritius across roughly 260 km². The district takes its name from Old Grand Port, the island's first Dutch landing site, and its historic coastal town of Mahébourg looks out over Grand Port Bay. It is a district of striking natural … Continued

Overstrand stretches along the Western Cape coast between the Kogelberg mountains and Cape Agulhas, taking in the towns of Hangklip–Kleinmond, Greater Hermanus, Stanford and Greater Gansbaai. Its seat, Hermanus, is world-renowned for land-based southern right whale watching, and the municipality's economy rests on tourism, agriculture, fishing and a growing small-business and services sector. The area … Continued

Masaka City lies in Uganda's Buganda Region, roughly 130 km south-west of Kampala and close to the Equator, on the trans-African corridor linking Uganda to Tanzania, Rwanda and the DRC. Granted city status in July 2020, it is organised into three divisions — Katwe-Butego, Kimaanya-Kyabakuza and Nyendo-Mukungwe. Long a coffee and agricultural trading hub for … Continued

Boane sits on the left bank of the Umbeluzi River in Maputo Province, within the capital's wider metropolitan area. Raised to town status in 1987 and constituted as a municipality in 2013 under Mozambique's decentralisation reforms, it is served by a station on the Goba railway and anchored economically by the Beleluane industrial park alongside … Continued