Africa Comoros Tayar, the first Comorian ride-hailing app, has been launched with support of Comorian Association of ICT and its incubator Comor'Lab; relying on geolocation, it is designed to enhance road safety and has an alert system connected to emergency services
Africa Ghana A $6,3 million project to minimise the use of mercury in mining has been launched in Accra by the government in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Industrial Organisation
Asia Cyprus The Bank of Cyprus released its preliminary financial results for 2022, posting a profit after tax of €71 million for the entire year; after-tax profit generated in 2021 was €30 million
Europe Poland The European Commission will take Poland to the European Court of Justice over challenges to the primacy of EU law made by the country's Constitutional Tribunal in two rulings in 2021
Europe Albania There have been a total of three anti-government protests so far in the past week, with opposition and supporters calling for the prime minister's resignation and attempting to disrupt the parliamentary session
Africa Tunisia The General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, Irishwoman Esther Lynch, was declared persona non grata in Tunisia by President Kais Saied, who on Saturday gave her 24 hours to leave the country
America Bahamas The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority URCA will undertake a review of its Consumer Protection Regulations this year to determine where the decade-old document is still ‘fit for purpose’
Africa Zambia Zambia is currently the only country in Africa where women can take two days of menstrual leave
Oceania Nauru Digicel Nauru donated a recharge voucher worth $5.000 to the Covid Task Force at its Aiwo headquarters
America Suriname Dozens of protesters forced their way into the country’s parliament as hundreds more protested through the Paramaribo capital to complain against government austerity measures, including the elimination of subsidies, against a backdrop of high inflation
Africa Burundi Four human rights activists were arrested while trying to travel to Uganda for a meeting with civil society organisations; reason for arrests was not immediately known but arrests of this kind have been frequent in recent years in Burundi
Oceania Marshall Islands Miss Jaluit Claret Chong Gum of the Rikpikareej clan was crowned the new Miss Marshall Islands by former MMI Billma Peter
America Guyana This week, the state marked the 57th anniversary of the Geneva Agreement, which settled the territorial dispute between Guyana and Venezuela, however, Venezuela publicly rejected the agreement, claiming that Guyanese territory belongs to Venezuela
Europe Greece The government has decided to resume pre-earthquake inspections of public buildings, prioritising some 30.000 structures deemed to be of critical importance, such as schools, hospitals and other places of major aggregation