Europe United Kingdom A wave of far-right anti-migrant sentiment is sweeping across the UK and a protest in Portsmouth was marked by violent incidents; around 500 hooded people besieged the port, disrupted ferry terminals after learning of the landing of 140 migrants
Africa Kenya Students and staff of the Kenya School of Flying at Wilson Airport in Nairobi welcomed Rutherford, 16-year-old British-Belgian attempting to break the current world record for youngest person to fly solo around the world
Oceania Kiribati WB has approved the Kiribati Outer Islands Resilience and Adaptation Project, involving collaboration with 20 island councils in Kiribati and 3 urban councils in Tarawa, openly supporting rural communities against climate change
Africa Cameroon Some eighty families, around one thousand people, were forced by bulldozers to leave their homes in the Bali district of the economic capital Douala to make way for the planned construction of a five-star Marriott hotel
Europe Czech Republic The country will tighten passport controls on refugees and only grant aid to those fleeing war and who have crossed the border into Ukraine, the Ministry of the Interior announced following the influx of Roma people with dual Hungarian-Ukrainian citizensh
Europe Slovenia After the Slovenian Foreign Ministry reduced the staff of the Russian embassy in Ljubljana from 41 to 8 in early April, Russia formally asked Slovenia to reduce the staff of its embassy in Moscow
Africa Uganda More than 1.000 elderly women will benefit from an empowerment programme in the Rubanda district in the south-west: they are given microfinance loans and housing
America Canada With 17 suspected monkeypox cases in the Montreal area, Public Health said they're asking health workers to be alert but added the illness is not extremely contagious and relative mild
Africa Libya 56 Libyan students will be trained for Italian at Ca' Foscari University in Venice, Italy; the Ministry of Education also emphasised its intention to teach Italian in Libya in the coming years
America Dominican Republic The country is a leader in the export of organic bananas, with 63% of the hectares dedicated to production already certified, accounting for 7,5% of agricultural GDP
Europe Hungary According to Eötvös Loránd Research Network, the number of teachers teaching subjects for which they are not specifically qualified has increased significantly in the past 4 years; the lack of new entrants is linked in particular to unfair salaries
America Suriname Due to its increasing collaboration with mining enterprises, as of this year, the country has reported a 126% increase in mining revenues
Africa Burundi Burundian company Intracom is finalising the process of setting up clinker and cement plants in Kigoma, with a capacity of 1 million tonnes and 0,6 million tonnes respectively
America Uruguay The country has suspended the VAT tax on the majority of its tourism activities in order to boost national tourism and international traveling