America Cuba International investors can now build and fully own tourism facilities: to reverse the dramatic fall in tourism, authorities have eliminated the requirement for foreign groups to form a joint venture with the Cuban state to manage their tourism activities
Europe Malta The country recorded the highest employment growth in the whole of the EU in the third quarter of this year, according to Eurostat, with an increase of just over one percentage point, more than double tham Belgium, which came second with half a point
Africa Mauritania $302,9m loan has been approved by African Development Fund to co-finance the Mauritania-Mali solar power and interconnection project with the construction of a high-voltage electricity interconnection and installation of a solar farm in Kiffa, Mauritania
America Uruguay Ancap, Uruguay's state energy company, has signed offshore hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation contracts, marking a historic phase of exploration across the country's entire territorial sea
Oceania Micronesia Mobile Diving and Salvage Company 1-8, the deployed salvage force of the US 7th Fleet, completed the disposal at sea of an abandoned cargo ship in Pohnpei as part of Pacific Partnership 24-1
Europe Moldova CinemaHora, the first international forum dedicated to the film industry, with filmmakers from 20 European countries, for the first time in Moldova, was hosted by Parliament
Africa Burundi The joint Tanzania-Burundi-DRC standard gauge railway project has received the necessary funding to begin the next phase of its development, with the African Development Bank approving several financing means worth $696,41 million
Oceania Solomon Islands The global scabies programme of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute completed the first round of mass distribution of an anti-parasitic drug in the Solomon Islands and Fiji, helping to protect millions of people from the disease
America Suriname Detainees at the Nieuwe Haven bureau in Suriname are protesting by mass-throwing government-provided food, expressing dissatisfaction with its taste and demanding better food quality
Africa Rwanda The Rwanda International Students Film Festival, open to students and emerging filmmakers from local and international educational institutions, will organise screenings and workshops, to use the film as medium to promote awareness on human rights issues
Africa Somalia Somalia has formally joined the East African Community as the 8th member state; President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud signed the bloc's accession treaty three weeks after being approved at a leaders' summit in Arusha, Tanzania
Africa Guinea The NGO Reporters Without Borders called on the military-dominated Guinean authorities to 'urgently' end the series of restrictive measures taken against some private media, denouncing 'attacks on press freedom on a considerable scale'
Asia Yemen "Our military operations will not stop," declared the Houthis of Yemen, saying they will not cease attacks on ships in the Red Sea, despite the US announcing a new maritime protection force to counter them
Africa Mauritius The 15th anniversary of the Seafarers' Welfare Fund was celebrated during a special event held at the Domaine de Rose Belle, in Rose Belle