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
Asia Yemen The Saudi aid agency KSrelief is providing humanitarian aid to Yemen, with the Masam project and the prosthetic limb program for those injured by explosions
Africa Togo The 2nd edition of the Interprofessional Dialogue on Taxation will be hosted in Lomé on July 6 and 7, 2023, even that will delve into the tax conventions signed by African countries with Togolese taxation experts and academic scholars
Africa Cape Verde In an attempt to promote gender equality, parliament established a 10-day paternity leave for the first time and to extend maternity leave from 60 to 90 days
Europe North Macedonia The Konrad Adenauer Foundation conducted a survey among citizens according to which 65,7% of residents are in favour of NATO membership, while 62,8% support the country's accession to the EU
Africa Seychelles Fisheries Information Management System, developed under the Third South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Governance and Shared Growth Project (SWIOFish), has been officially launched
Africa Senegal President Macky Sall surprised many by deciding not to seek a third term in the upcoming elections in February 2024, a decision welcomed as a great relief by many in Dakar, where tensions had been running high
Oceania Papua New Guinea Transparency International PNG held its Annual General Meeting to present the report for the year 2022 to its members and to appoint the next generation of executives
America Brazil Brazil's highest electoral court has barred former President Jair Bolsonaro from running for office until 2030, finding him guilty of abusing power and misusing public media during the 2022 election campaign
Europe Norway New rules will make it easier for gay men to donate blood in the country, who will soon have to follow the same quarantine times as heterosexuals after each change of sexual partner, until now twice as long
Europe Andorra Works in Prat del Creu were considered finished by municipality, which will reopen traffic in both directions once the pavement is asphalted; Major Consul of Andorra la Vella, David Astrié, admitted that works were very long and caused traffic problems
America Antigua and Barbuda Services rendered at the Clare Hall Health Centre are temporarily transferred to other clinics due to renovation works at the facility, informed the Ministry of Health, Welfare, Social Transformation and Environment
Asia Qatar Panda House Park saw an astonishing total of 5.000 visitors during the Eid Al Adha holiday, with an average of about 1.500 people per day, according to the Ministry of the Municipality; in all, 120.000 visits have been recorded since opening
America United States Maternal deaths across the U.S. more than doubled over two decades, and unequally: black mothers died at the nation’s highest rates, while the largest increases in deaths were found in American Indian and Native Alaskan mothers