Oceania Marshall Islands The fish aggregation devices FADs that fishing boats use to make catches easier, lately equipped with satellite communications gear to pinpoint location, are now being built by drug cartels that wrap packs of cocaine and radio transponders to trace troves
America Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves has clarified that he never said his government is considering rehiring unvaccinated teachers, again urging people to choose to vaccinate
America Saint Lucia The Department of Labour, in collaboration with Canadian Vermax Group, is seeking applications from suitably qualified persons who wish to obtain employment in Canada as industrial meat cutters
America Saint Kitts and Nevis The office of the Department of Labour will reopen for normal daily operations today, after having remained closed last week in order to facilitate Career Fair 2022
America Colombia The state has officially prohibited the import of all Apple products that have 5G, due to the company lacking a nationally essential patent for this technology
Africa Mauritius Press is focusing on the lack of a frame of legal protection to whistle blowers or a Freedom of Information Bill, even though Mauritius is signatory to two UN Conventions enjoining each state to provide specific guarantees
Africa Rwanda The country has adopted the RASME - Remote Assessment Supervision Monitoring and Evaluation - initiative, a tool that improves the collection of project data in remote areas, the first East African country to do so and the seventh in the entire continent
Oceania Micronesia For the Kizuna, special bond, with the people & Government of Japan, the FSM government issued a declaration of sadness and shock for the murder of Mr. Abe, re-pronouncing the commitments to a free & open Indo-Pacific
Europe Portugal Ranked as the best European country for living and working abroad in the Expat Insider 2022, it sees 85% of expats happy with their life in Portugal, compared to 71% globally according to almost 12.000 respondents
Africa South Sudan The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved an $8,1 million grant to South Sudan to finance its emergency food production programme
Europe France Firefighters are battling blazes that have destroyed thousands of hectares of forest this week, while hundreds of families have been preventively displaced; in Arcachon only, two wildfires have devoured over 10.000 hectares
Europe Ukraine The UN International Court of Justice in The Hague could open a hearing on the merits of the case accusing Russia of genocide against Ukrainians next autumn
Europe Belgium A budget of €2 million has been approved to scale up a project involving offshore floating solar panels at sea; if successful, Belgium would be the first country in the world to do this
Africa Botswana A group of 70 representatives from various government agencies and institutions in Botswana have been trained to strengthen their skills and capacities to effectively coordinate emergencies impacting on public health