Oceania Solomon Islands With newly improved roads in Auki, provincial police appealed to drivers in Malaita to use responsibility and greater care in driving; reckless driving had reportedly increased since works began, forcing to monitor underage drivers and speeding vehicles
Africa Sao Tome and Principe West African Coastal Areas Resilience Investment Project started the construction of a school in the community of Micoló, Lobata district, in a World Bank-funded climate change mitigation project in coastal regions
Oceania Nauru A second smart home to a family in Menen was handed over by the the Secretary of the Ministry of Infrastructure on behalf of the Government
Oceania Micronesia The World Health Organisation has declared that a contaminated cough syrup produced by an Indian company has been found in the Marshall Islands and Micronesia in the Oceania region
Oceania Vanuatu A new oxygen facility at Vila Central Hospital, that greatly increases the country's access to life-saving medical oxygen, has been inaugurated by Vanuatu's Ministry of Health, WHO and the European Union
Europe Switzerland Swiss Employers' Union presented an action plan to deal with the shortage of labour (120.000 workers), in particular skilled workers, requiring, besides the adoption of incentives, an extension of the employment rate and a flexibilisation of working hours
Europe Lithuania Aurimas Valujavičius, a Lithuanian traveller, completed his four-month journey across the Atlantic Ocean in a single rowboat on Tuesday
Africa Togo The new market in Kara was inaugurated by President Faure Gnassingbé as part of a one-day tour to celebrate Togo's 63rd anniversary of independence
Asia Kazakhstan The national atomic company Kazatomprom received a state registration certificate for a new company Taiqonyr Qyshqyl Zauyty to build a sulphuric acid plant in the Sozak district
Africa South Africa The world's largest rhino herd is about to be auctioned off in South Africa, as the owner ran out of money after 30 years
Europe Moldova An awareness-raising and social mobilisation campaign against sexual violence was launched in Chisinau, organised by the United Nations Population Fund of Moldova with the government and the organisation La Strada
Asia Turkey The government is planning to appoint 45.000 contract teachers in the coming period, President Erdoğan said, aiming at raising the quality of education in the country to a level that will be an example to the rest of the world
Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo The National Assembly declared admissible a bill exempting victims of sexual violence, as well as other categories of people considered vulnerable, from legal fees
Africa Algeria President Abdelmadjid Tebboune will visit France in June, his office said, weeks after a diplomatic spat over a Franco-Algerian activist