Africa South Sudan Conditions for elections remain unfavorable, UN experts warned during a press conference in Juba after concluding their visit to South Sudan; planned December elections face risks from renewed violence, shrinking civic space, persistent impunity.
Europe Kosovo A conference organized by BIRN Kosovo before the International Fact-Checking Day, set for yesterday 2 April, called for new strategies and partnerships to counter the 'virus' of fake news and disinformation
Asia Lebanon Civil society organisations and lawmakers in Lebanon have expressed concern over the awarding of a multi-million dollar contract to build and operate a second terminal at Beirut International Airport
Europe Poland Wojtyla's monument was daubed with the inscription 'Maxima culpa' from the title of the book that accuses the pontiff of covering up child sex abuse perpetrators when he was archbishop in Krakow
Asia Cyprus The EU’s goal for biodiversity strategy in Cyprus - to plant three million new trees by 2030, about 1.000 saplings a day - is impossible to meet, according to Green party leader Charalambos Theopemptou
America Dominican Republic To keep citizens informed of any mobility contingencies and to provide alternative routes for those affected by such issues during the recent XXVIII Ibero-American Summit, the government of the District National has used the Waze mobility platform
Asia Maldives Four regional hospitals – two in northern and two in southern Maldives – will be developed under a project for local development supported by the Chinese International Development Cooperation Agency, which MoU was signed yesterday with a ceremony in Malé
Africa Cameroon Jacqueline Nkembe Epse Adiaba, a Cameroonian expert, is the first woman elected president of the Central African Financial Market Supervisory Commission
Europe Bulgaria Early parliamentary elections, the fifth in the past two years, have opened, with the conservative Gerb party of former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, who has led the government for almost a decade, favoured
Europe Sweden The Swedish Tax Agency has been commissioned to conduct a national census to get a better picture of who is staying illegally, said the Minister of Finance and leader of the far-right Sweden Democrat party
Asia Tajikistan The country is expected to allocate TJS 1,6 billion (€135 million) to the renewable energy programme planned for 2023-2027, thus significantly increasing electricity production over the next five years through the use of renewable energy resources
Europe Iceland Considerable precipitation affected East Iceland, leading to a high risk of avalanches and to security forces evacuating houses; the situation has now improved and relief for the evacuated is expected soon
Africa Algeria Algerian mathematician Youcef Saad has been awarded the prestigious John-von-Neumann Prize for Mathematics for the year 2023
Africa Rwanda Rwandan political activist Paul Rusesabagina, whose story inspired the Oscar-nominated film Hotel Rwanda, is expected to have been released from prison according to newsletter Semafor, which cites senior Rwandan and Qatari officials