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
Africa Cape Verde Technicians, maritime accident researchers and professionals from national maritime and port institutions began training in Mindelo to identify factors contributing to accidents and increase maritime safety
Africa Botswana The country has announced that it will extend and expand restrictions on tomatoes, potatoes, onions and other products until July 2025, with a view to achieving the country's food self-sufficiency
Africa Madagascar The country received $8,8 million for carbon credits from reducing 1,76 million tons of carbon emissions in 2020, becoming the third country in Africa to be paid by the WB for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation
Asia Armenia It is necessary to regulate at the legislative level the issue of citizens' right to self-defence through the use of arms, announced Vilen Gabrielyan, deputy of ruling Civil Contract Faction and author of the package of bills to regulate the arms trade
Africa Mozambique Additional 28 fully-funded scholarships from Partnership with Ocean Countries Programme for students in Mozambique and Senegal has been launched by the Association of Commonwealth Universities and the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture
Africa Guinea-Bissau An Ecowas communiqué 'strongly condemns the violence and all attempts to disrupt the constitutional order and the rule of law in Guinea-Bissau', calling for 'the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators'
Oceania Marshall Islands The Ebeye Environmental Protection Authority continues to ensure that drinking water is safe for public consumption, although limited to a team of four
Africa Eritrea Around the hospital in Halibet, the Ministry - through its local branch- has created a model farm, where organic fertilisers, both liquid and solid, are applied, and crops of wheat, potatoes and pulses are rotated
Europe Bulgaria Sofia Airport has introduced smart drinking fountains equipped with a cost-saving water dispensing system
Africa Nigeria An $80 million loan from the African Development Bank will finance Ekiti Knowledge Zone project in Nigeria to promote digital innovation and entrepreneurship, generate 26.000 jobs and bring about $14 million a year in net economic benefits
Africa Ethiopia Trócaire's Christmas Appeal aims to bring children displaced by the conflict back home, more than a year after the peace agreement that ended two years of war in the Tigray region
America Bolivia Manuel Rocha, former US Ambassador to Bolivia, has been formally charged with serving as a secret agent for Cuban intelligence for decades, allegedly meeting with Cuban intelligence agents and providing false information to US officials about his travels
Asia East Timor The Government has announced the Awards for the Best National Nativity Scenes in the "Nativity for a Month of Peace" Initiative