Asia Bangladesh An auto-fine system will be launched today on Dhaka-Chittagong highway: it will automatically detect speeding, illegal parking, driving against traffic with AI-powered cameras; police urged transport owners, workers, stakeholders to support the initiative
Africa South Africa Cape Town International Airport has won the Best Airport in Africa 2022 award for the seventh consecutive year at the Skytrax World Airport Awards
Europe Croatia Central Croatia's biggest tourist and cultural event, the traditional Terezijana, has just ended for the 26th consecutive year; the event is based on the legend of the founding of the town and Empress Maria Theresa's stay in the area
Europe Ukraine The member states of the Three Seas Initiative (3SI) granted Ukraine the status of "participating partner" in the group and supported its efforts to join the EU
Asia Nepal The country is preparing to move Everest Base Camp - located on the Khumbu Glacier and used by 1500 people during this spring climbing season - because global warming and human activity are making it unsafe for crevasses to form in the ice
Africa Mali The new electoral law has been adopted by a very large majority (115 votes in favour, 3 against and no abstentions), but with many changes to the initial text proposed by the transitional government
Africa Libya MSF has called for speeding up the evacuation of the most vulnerable migrants stranded in Libya to safe countries; there are currently an estimated 600.000 migrants in Libya subjected to confinement and enslavement
Asia Cambodia World's largest freshwater fish ever recorded, a giant stingray, was caught a week ago in Mekong River; it measured nearly 4 metres and weighed almost 300 kg, according to Wonders of the Mekong, a joint Cambodian-US research project on Monday
Africa Ivory Coast The Minister for the Promotion of Good Governance and the Fight against Corruption announced the launch in a few weeks of the platform for reporting acts of corruption, inviting the entire population to use it to report 'any act of corruption'
Africa Angola Mobilising the residents of the seaside and port city of Moçamedes, the deputy governor of Namibe province launched an urban renewal project that is changing the face of the city by estabishing new cultural centres and creating new jobs
Africa Somalia The United Nations in Somalia called for the strengthening of legal and social protection mechanisms for survivors of sexual violence, namely women and children
Africa Cape Verde The government has declared a social and economic emergency in the archipelago, with 9 out of 100 Cape Verdeans at risk of food insecurity; inflation has reached 8%, according to data from last May, while in the same period in 2021 it was at 1,9%
Asia Philippines Sara Duterte, daughter of Rodrigo Duterte, the country's outgoing president, was sworn in as vice-president alongside her running mate, Ferdinand Marcos Junior, who will soon replace her father as president
Asia Indonesia Indonesian authorities hope to reach an agreement with Singapore to start exporting chickens within weeks, as the city-state scrambles to find alternative sources of supply after neighbouring Malaysia restricted sales