Africa Mauritius Genre Statistics 2025 still show men dominate the economy and retain most of the political power, but show increasing weaknesses in education, health and certain social behaviors
Europe Norway Electricity was said to be free in Norway's two largest cities on Monday, as power is produced almost exclusively from hydroelectric sources and a summer storm filled the dams
Africa Burkina Faso Acting President Traore held talks with a Russian delegation in a meeting that included discussions on possible military cooperation; relations between the two countries have been in the spotlight since the country ousted French troops in February
Asia Laos Vang Vieng district authorities have made improvements to several facilities and services ahead of the Visit Laos Year 2024
Europe Vatican City Pope Francis announced that he is preparing an apostolic letter on St. Thérèse of Lisieux to be published on October 15
Asia Turkmenistan A ceremony was held to inaugurate a new complex of buildings of the Civil Service Academy, for the training and professional development of senior managers and civil servants
Asia North Korea Kim Jong-un will meet Vladimir Putin in Russia and discuss sending North Korean weapons to Moscow; he would be travelling by armoured train to Vladivostok, according to US officials cited by the New York Times
Africa Senegal Senegalese chef Fati Niang has turned Niébé, a typical bean in Senegalese cuisine, more traditional in rural areas than in cities, into the protagonist of a high-end street food
America Trinidad and Tobago A quantity of "ghost guns", manufactured with 3D printing technology, has reportedly been seized by local Police
Africa Seychelles Seychelles Medical Services has made a donation to the Ministry of Health, providing it with state-of-the-art laboratory, equipped with advanced technology, and medical supplies worth SCR 3 million ($232.400) to improve patient care
Europe Belgium Brussels is trying to address the problem of fragmented transport modes in Belgium's regions with a multimodal app that combines all transports
Europe Slovakia Slovakia's projected battery production capacity will reach 10 GWh by 2030, which is lower than that of its Visegrad counterparts and beats only Croatia's 2 GWh in the Central European region
Africa Cape Verde Noncommunicable diseases are responsible for 70% of all deaths in the country, more than one-third of which are due to cardiovascular disease and about 5% to diabetes, says latest statistical report by the Ministry of Health
Africa Ethiopia An agreement for a $730 million corridor project to improve the key route between Addis Ababa and Djibouti has been signed between the government of Ethiopia and the World Bank