Europe Albania Diaspora is remembering 35 years since the cargo ship Vlora docked in Bari, Italy, with 20.000 refugees fleeing the collapse of the communist regime; the disembarking of 8 August 1991 is the largest single-vessel mass migration landing in European history
Africa Central African Republic Head of State Faustin Archange Touadéra appointed by decree a new President of the Constitutional Court to replace the incumbent President, whom he dismissed after invalidating several of his decrees and bills
Africa Mali Norwegian Refugee Council said that nearly 150.000 children displaced by the conflict in Mali do not have birth certificates and are at risk of exclusion and non-recognition because they cannot prove their identity
Africa Comoros The trial that opened on Monday 21 November should help clarify the nature of the economic citizenship programme, its tops and flops, but also the sale of passports outside official channels between 2008 and 2015
Europe Belarus Belarusian scientists would be interested in the matter of management of radioactive waste, as declared by Zhemzhurov, head of a lab of the joint energy and nuclear research institute Sosny of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Asia Kazakhstan On election day, 68 polling stations opened the doors of Kazakhstan's foreign missions in 53 countries, with 12.841 voters, or 88,47%
Africa Cameroon As the country is organising its fifth vaccination campaign, a high-level mission of the Global Partnership for the Provision of Vaccines against Covid-19, an initiative launched by UNICEF, WHO and Gavi, has visited Cameroon
Asia Cambodia The country has signed a memorandum of understanding with South Korea to improve road safety near schools, aiming to reduce deaths and serious injuries in road accidents and raise public awareness
Africa Guinea On World Fisheries Day, Guinean stakeholders took the opportunity to clean up the artisanal fishing port of Bonfi
America Haiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on behalf of the Government of Haiti, deplores the images and news spread particularly on social networks, regarding the degrading treatment inflicted on compatriots repatriated from the Dominican Republic
Europe Iceland Icelanders read or listen to an average of 2,4 books per month and almost one third of the population reads pages of a book every day or more often, according to the results of a survey on the nation's attitude to reading
Europe France The country is at medium risk of power outages from mid-December, as the so far mild temperatures are expected to drop and cause further pressure on the country's nuclear fleet, which is already under pressure, French energy regulator RTE said last week
Africa Ivory Coast The third edition of the conference on investment in tourism and hotels in Africa will be held on Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 January, in Abidjan, with the theme "Africa Deserves Beauty"
Europe Poland The country has issued a series of decisions effectively banning Russian representatives, including Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, from attending international meetings and summits on its territory