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
Europe Romania EFdeN, the only team representing Romania at the Solar Decathlon Europe 21/22, won three prizes with its solar house prototype, VATRA
Africa Cape Verde The Lusafrica label, founded by José da Silva in the late 1980s, allows young emerging artists to find space and a chance to showcase, especially after the suffering of the pandemic
Europe San Marino San Marino Rtv launches today 'TERRANOSTRA Lovely places'; the new program, aired every Sunday at 1pm, focuses on the historical link with Emilia Romagna, the Italian region surrounding the Republic
Africa Sierra Leone A new family of banknotes has been introduced, removing three zeros from the lion, in an attempt to restore confidence in the inflation-hit national currency
Europe Slovenia Data from the Bureau of Statistics show that Slovenia's inflation rate reached a 24-year high of 10,4%, driven by rising prices of oil products, food and electricity
America Saint Kitts and Nevis Works for the necessary renovation of the New Road Family Park in St. Peters is expected to be completed in October, facilitated by the Ministry of Social Development and Gender Affairs in collaboration with the Embassy of the Republic of China in Taiwan
Africa Mozambique The Zinave National Park welcomed its first white rhinos in 40 years on Friday after 19 of the threatened animals completed a 1.600-kilometre truck ride from South Africa
Africa Ethiopia The Addis Ababa government recently launched the fourth phase of the Green Legacy initiative, launched in 2019, which aims to achieve the target of 20 billion trees planted in four years by the end of 2022
Asia Qatar Nearly 90 million vehicles have entered The Pearl Island since 2016, with an increase of 77% in 2021 compared to 2016, according to data of United Development Company, the master developer of The Pearl and Gewan Islands
Africa Guinea The Chimpanzee Conservation Centre helps puppies that are left alone or have been injured to find their freedom; the country is a crucial hub for traffickers, who capture the puppies to sell them as pets
Africa Togo The government is providing the hotel managers with tools and training to help mitigate the jihadist threat in the country, as the authorities believe the terrorists may use hotels as hiding places
Africa Tunisia The draft of the new Constitution, that will be submitted to a referendum on 25 July, has been published in the Official Gazette and it consists of ten chapters and 142 articles
Oceania Fiji ADB and the Ministry of Economy have signed a $150 million loan agreement to promote economic recovery and various other local sectors, as well as climate change and green growth, long-standing cross-cutting themes in Fiji's development agenda