Africa Tanzania A comprehensive voluntary repatriation program has been finalized to bring back Tanzanian citizens living in South Africa, following growing impatience towards African immigrants; in co-operation with local authorities, returnees will undergo verification
Asia Yemen To prevent a major environmental disaster, the UN have launched a campaign to raise $144 million to offload a million barrels of crude oil from a rotting tanker stranded off the coast for years
Oceania Solomon Islands The winning design for the 2023 Pacific Games in Honiara has been officially unveiled after the Sol2023 Games Organising Committee (GOC) approved the winning design selected from 19 entries received from local artists in the country
Asia Cambodia A female stingray, one of South-East Asia's largest and rarest fish species, was accidentally caught last week when she swallowed a smaller fish that had taken a hook; she has now been released into the Mekong River
America Grenada The country, called the Caribbean capital of chocolate for its large production of cocoa beans, celebrates this year with the return of the Grenada Chocolate Fest from 13 to 18 May after being suspended due to the pandemic
Asia South Korea New President Yoon Suk Yeol promised a "bold plan" to strengthen North Korea's economy and improve the lives of its people in exchange for denuclearisation, in his inauguration speech on Tuesday
Africa Mozambique The IMF has granted a €432 million loan to Mozambique, the first since it withdrew six years ago at the time of the so-called 'hidden debt' scandal involving the government
Asia Bahrain Together with Saudi Arabia, the country was granted eVisa exemption status for the UK, which will take effect on 1 June; all citizens will be able to apply to travel to the UK for up to six months with an eVisa exemption
Africa Senegal The High-Level Regional Conference on Combating Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants, as part of the follow-up to the Niamey Declaration with the financial support of the European Union, closed today in Dakar
Asia Japan Japanese household spending fell in March for the first time in three months, although the drop was smaller than expected -2,3% - as consumers remained wary of rising living costs
Asia Palestine Al Jazeera's Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin; the Ministry of Health said she was hit by Israeli fire, despite wearing a vest bearing the inscription PRESS
Africa Togo President Gnassingbé accepted mediation between Mali's ruling military junta and Ecowas, the African Union (AU) and the UN
Asia Sri Lanka As clashes spread late Monday evening, authorities imposed an indefinite curfew across the nation of 22 million and called in the army to help contain the violence
Africa South Sudan One person has died and 30 others have been infected with cholera in South Sudan in a resurgence of the disease not seen since 2017, the Ministry of Health announced