Africa Morocco Rivalry between Morocco and Algeria has a new geopolitical battlefield in the Sahel, where they are deploying radically different strategies; the area is under geopolitical reconstruction after the vacuum left by French withdrawal and the rise of Russia
Europe Greece Passenger traffic in the ports of Piraeus and Rafina increased by 10,63% and 11,33% respectively in the first 15 days of July compared to the same period last year
Africa Mauritania To develop livestock farming, the country's second source of livelihood Mauritania will receive $767.000 from the African Development Fund, the concessional financing window of the African Development Bank Group
America Argentina China has significantly expanded its investments in Argentina's lithium-rich regions to secure reserves, sparking environmental concerns and prompting warnings from the US about China's aggressive expansion in the lithium field
Africa Ethiopia The last of the 17 historic venues known as Azmari Bets, the Ethiopian cabaret club Fendika, has been saved from demolition; Azmari, itinerant poet-musicians from rural Ethiopia, improvise to the sound of the masinqo, a single-string violin
Europe Luxembourg Amazon's employment grew by about 15% and has now become Luxembourg's second-largest corporate employer in 2022, before this year's job cuts
Europe Moldova More special equipment for state border control and surveillance has been donated to Moldova by the German Federal Police, including 30 radio stations and 58 portable thermal imaging cameras
Oceania Fiji A tractor equipped with a 3-disc plough was handed over to the Narewa Farmers' Cooperative by the The Minister of Agriculture and Waterways
Asia Laos With 10.000 cases and six deaths already reported this year, the Lao Ministry of Health is actively tackling the dengue fever epidemic in the country with a mission to eradicate mosquito breeding grounds and raise awareness among the local population
Africa Guinea The statutory members of the Guinean Football Federation in an extraordinary general assembly, unanimously approved the new statutes proposed by the Standardisation Committee
Africa Chad Chadian Neurology Society held a press briefing in which neurologist Madjirabe Ngardiguina said that more and more young adults are victim to neurological diseases, so much that at CHU la Renaissance 15% of stroke admissions are young people under 45
Oceania Solomon Islands This year marks 20th anniversary of the inception of the Solomon Islands Regional Assistance Mission and the Government, in collaboration with Australia, commemorated the anniversary with a religious service at St Barnabas Cathedral in Honiara
Asia Singapore The Housing and Development Board (HDB) said some flat buyers who applied for a new eligibility letter fell victim to system problems that lengthened the processing time
Europe Iceland A second house has been unearthed at the archaeological site of Stöng, one of the best-known farms of the colonisation era, which houses a heritage museum featuring a reconstruction of a farmhouse and church from the settlement period