America Canada Northern Shield Energy Corridor has been unveiled, a 3.300-km crude oil pipeline project for 5-800.000 barrels/day and running entirely through Canada; Premiers of Alberta and Ontario said it's designed for energy security by bypassing US transit routes
Asia Afghanistan Some 79% of Afghan households reported severe water shortages, which means it is difficult to access clean and safe water, according to a UNICEF survey
America Bolivia The country has established a credit line with the Inter-American Development Bank to increase its water security by approximately 25%, which will be done through establishing water pipelines and irrigation systems in the country’s most remote areas
America Colombia The country has signed an agreement with Ecuador to join forces so they can protect their shared border from organised crime and drug dealing, which includes shared personnel training, combining of certain border laws, and joint border control
Africa Niger A bill establishing the basic principles of disaster risk management has been adopted, thus providing a legal framework for the organisation of civil protection
Africa Republic of the Congo New agents from the Ministry of Social Affairs, Solidarity and Humanitarian Action attended a workshop in Brazzaville to learn about their missions on the ground in favour of vulnerable people
Europe Slovakia The situation in schools is rapidly deteriorating due to respiratory diseases, with the number of sick children rising sharply; so far, about 80 kindergartens and schools have closed and more will do so
Europe Poland The Polish Prime Minister paid tribute to the victims of the 1981 repression by the country's communist authorities against striking miners in the southern city of Katowice, which he described as 'an open wound in Polish history'
Africa South Africa Ruling party kicked off a closely watched convention on Friday that looks set to re-elect Cyril Ramaphosa as its leader, despite money-stealing scandal; 4.500 African National Congress delegates from across the country will vote at the 5-day convention
Europe Romania The jury of the national selection of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 has chosen 12 songs from the 84 entries in the pre-selection phase of the contest, thus announcing the participants in the February show
Africa Tunisia The country went to the polls for early general elections yesterday, in the shadow of party boycott decisions; 1.058 candidates, 120 of them women, represent 161 constituencies and compete for the 161 Assembly seats
Africa Rwanda At the Abryanz Style & Fashion Awards 2022 ceremony, held on Friday at the Kampala Serena Hotel, Moses Turahirwa - renowned Rwandan designer and founder of Moshions - was presented as African Designer of the Year
Europe Serbia Football legend Sinisa Mihajlovic has died at the age of 53 after a long battle with leukaemia; one of the world's best free-kick shooters, Mihajlovic won the European Cup in 1990 with Red Star Belgrade
Africa Sao Tome and Principe Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Central Africa expressed concern about acts of "torture, degrading human treatment and extrajudicial executions" that allegedly took place at the military headquarters in São Tomé