Africa Uganda Uber has ended its operations in Uganda after having been a commodity in the local urban transport for over a decade; the exit takes immediate effect and follows extensive review of Uber's business priorities across Africa
America Canada In a vision to become the 1st First Nation (indigenous people neither Inuit nor Métis) north of 60° without a housing crisis, Liard First Nation is building timber homes using frame parts cut on-site at a brand new production plant
Europe Monaco Prince Albert II in person welcomed a hundred cyclists who set off from London on September 19 to cover 1100 kilometres and reach Monaco on September 26 to raise awareness on oceans’ protection
Africa Guinea-Bissau The Luz Party of Guinea-Bissau and the African Party for Peace and Social Stability signed a political collaboration agreement
Asia Mongolia Mongolian students will be able to study at universities in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region of China, from 31 December 2024, by agreement for 200 places for Bachelor's degrees, 40 places for Master's degrees and 20 places for PhD degrees
Africa Namibia Regulatory authority has awarded three 4G/5G licences to Loc8 Mobile, Telecom Namibia and Mobile Telecommunications
Africa Mauritius The Supreme Court of Mauritius has overturned a law that criminalised same-sex relationships
Europe Serbia On 1 October, changes to the Serbian excise law came into force, increasing excise duties on fuel, cigarettes, alcohol and coffee by 8%
Europe Italy Salvini, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, posted a video of magistrate Apostolico demonstrating as private citizen in 2018 to discredit a recent sentence of hers, raising further debate on the autonomy of the three powers
Africa Somalia More and more women engineers are heading construction sites and projects in the country, defying still-present prejudices and discrepancies, such as getting lower pay than their male colleagues
Oceania Tuvalu Discrimination on the basis of gender and disability - as long as it does not conflict with traditional values - has been banned under a new constitution that came into effect this week
Europe Ukraine After the Russian missile attack that killed over 50 people, the UN sent a team to the village of Groza in the Kharkiv region for inspection
Oceania Papua New Guinea The Papua New Guinea Rugby Football League has appointed Tony Archer as Manager of Competition Governance and Match Officials
Asia Tajikistan Nizomiddin Nasriddinov, a former activist of the opposition movement Group 24, was sentenced to 8½ years in prison on charges of making public appeals to forcibly change Tajikistan's constitutional order