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
Europe Belgium Eleven Belgian universities have appealed to the authorities to make the movement of foreign researchers and students in Belgium easier
Europe Poland Poland threatened Minsk with sanctions against the country after a court in Grodno sentenced Andrzej Poczobut, a Polish-Belarusian journalist and activist living in Belarus, to eight years in prison
Africa Kenya A team of archaeologists has unearthed some of the oldest stone tools ever used by humans, dating back some 2,9 million years; they give evidence the tools were used by other branches of early humans not just ancestors to Homo Sapiens
America Dominican Republic 8 earthquakes have been recorded in the country between 9 and 10 Feb; the National Seismology Center of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo said the most relevant event reached a depth of 30,1 km off Catalina Island and 3,4 on Richter scale
Africa Ghana The country is optimistic that the ongoing negotiations with the IMF to obtain the fund's support by March will have positive outcome, with issues related to the domestic debt swap programme, one of the requests, "virtually concluded"
Europe Spain Spain's abortion law, in force since 2010, was deemed constitutional by the Constitutional Court on Thursday, rejecting an appeal filed by the centre-right Partido Popular twelve years ago
Africa Gambia President Adama Barrow said a special tribunal should be set up to try those named in the enquiry report that examined crimes committed under the previous government of Yayha Jammeh
Africa Mali The country closed to any possible new cooperation with France as bilateral ties no longer met Bamako's national interests, an announcement that came after talks with Russian diplomacy chief Sergey Lavrov
Africa Sudan Sudanese forces that did not subscribe to last December's framework agreement reached by the ruling military with the Forces for Freedom and Change announced the creation of a new political coalition and roadmap to solve the crisis
Africa Zambia A law has been passed prohibiting pedestrians from using headphones, earphones or talking on the phone while crossing the road; violators of the law will be subject to a fine of 300 Zambian Kwachas ($15,71) if convicted
Oceania Kiribati Nippon Foundation-GEBCO's Seabed 2030 project has entered into a MoU with Ministry of Information, Communications and Transport to collaborate as part of the global effort to advance ocean science and obtain a comprehensive map of entire ocean floor
Africa Niger Niger and the Netherlands have decided to strengthen cooperation in the field of migration, covering human trafficking, border security, migrant protection and the voluntary repatriation of migrants from Niger
America Colombia Dozens of teachers have been protesting for days outside of Congress to demand what they consider to be failures in the healthcare service they receive, and to request that there should be a proper reform of the current healthcare system