Oceania Marshall Islands The fish aggregation devices FADs that fishing boats use to make catches easier, lately equipped with satellite communications gear to pinpoint location, are now being built by drug cartels that wrap packs of cocaine and radio transponders to trace troves
Africa Lesotho A Youth Entrepreneurship Investment Bank will be created with the support of the African Development Bank Group, with $16 million allocated to finance this strategic initiative targeting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises led by young people
Europe Slovenia Ljubljana's utility company Voka Snaga has detected modern-day water pollutants, benzotriazoles, in drinking water; the concentration of the hazardous substances is low for now, but further increases could call for more stringent measures
Europe Switzerland It is mainly the over 60s who use legal products containing cannabinoids, according to a survey carried out by the Zurich marketing and market research agency 'Link’
Africa Somalia Work on the Galmudug Youth Centre has officially begun as part of efforts by UNFPA to support the aspirations of young people in Somalia; the centre is one of several youth centres in Somalia that UNFPA facilitates wit Netherlands and EU support
Asia Nepal At least 117 wild animals were found dead in Chitwan National Park in the last fiscal year; compared to 80 that died of natural causes, as many as 26 died as a result of a dog bite
Africa Namibia Statistics indicate a rising trend of sexually transmitted infections in Namibia, said Health Minister Kalumbi Shangula, despite progress in reducing HIV infections in several demographic and population groups
Asia Syria Fionnuala Ni Aolain, UN Independent Rapporteur on Protection of Rights while Countering Terrorism, expressed concern that hundreds of very young boys have been wrongly separated from their mothers under 'unproven' belief that they pose a security risk
Asia Palestine The Palestinian Authority's Foreign Ministry has called on all countries to include people linked to settler terror organisations or companies investing in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories on their terror lists
Oceania Papua New Guinea Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs announced that French President Macron will make a one-day visit to Papua New Guinea today Friday, July 28, 2023
Africa Republic of the Congo Société nationale des pétroles du Congo signed a memorandum of understanding in Algiers with Sonatrach, the Algerian national hydrocarbon company, to strengthen their cooperation in hydrocarbon exploration and development
Africa South Sudan A decade-long crisis in South Sudan has prompted women living in IDP camps in Bentiu, Unity State, to seek alternative ways to survive by turning to income-generating projects
Africa Cape Verde 90% of the sewer ruptures that occur on roads in various parts of the country are caused by household waste, said the president of the board of directors of Águas de Santiago
Asia Qatar At the Hamad Port Visitors Centre in Umm Al-Houl, one can admire the world's most venomous fish, the Stnanceia verrucosa, commonly known as stone fish