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
Asia Turkmenistan President Berdimuhamedov gave instructions to modernise the existing tax system into an electronic system
Africa Madagascar The World Bank has approved the second phase of the Programme for Improving Nutrition Outcomes through the multiphase programme approach to continue helping Madagascar address stunting in children
Africa Equatorial Guinea After a month of debate to choose between four proposals submitted to Equatorial Guinea for the implementation of the online visa, VFS-GLOBAL, a leading Swiss outsourcing and technology company, was selected
America El Salvador The UN is going to conduct a special mission in the country in order to evaluate the current emergency situation that is causing thousands of inmate deaths
Asia Sri Lanka Sri Lankan lawmakers have gathered to begin choosing a new leader for the remainder of the term abandoned by the president, who fled abroad and resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse
Africa Ghana George Graham, CEO of Pryme, with his label EZ Streets Record is set to inject $10m into the Ghanaian music industry to make it more attractive to other investors and encourage emerging talent to be more creative with their craft
Asia Georgia The working group on judicial reforms, chaired by Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili, met for the first time this week to discuss the European Commission's 12-point recommendations
America Dominica The Government of Dominica has launched the Future Homes Programme, through which it will build homes for sale to people employed in the public and private sectors to give young citizens access to affordable and resilient housing
Asia Jordan At the 2022 UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development HH Princess Dina pointed to the negative social and economic effects of the pandemic, especially on women: rise in poverty, decrease in education rates, spike in unpaid healthcare work
Africa Mozambique Mozambican defence and security forces have captured the Catupa base, headquarter used by terrorists in the northern province of Cabo Delgado
Oceania Solomon Islands Western Provincial capital of Gizo is once again being faced with one of its decade-long problems of water shortage, now presenting even more challenge for residents each day as short rains aren’t enough to fill the home tanks nor the wells
Europe Luxembourg A petition calling for every Luxembourg worker, including cross-border employees, to be able to work from home two days a week has received over 9.000 signatures and it is now likely to be debated in parliament
Asia Iraq Hundreds of thousands of Shia Muslim supporters of al-Sadr gathered in Baghdad for mass Friday prayers