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
Africa Comoros 13 years after a plane crashed off the coast of the country on 30/06/09, the trial opened in Paris; Assoumani, head of the victims' families' association, said that states involved - such as Yemen and France - didn't cooperate any faster
Africa Ivory Coast Under the motto "Let's act fast!", the COP15 against desertification kicked off on Monday in Abidjan in the presence of several African heads of state, seeking to take concrete action against rapid land degradation and respond to the climate emergency
Africa Sudan The national dialogue planned to resolve the political crisis plaguing the country was postponed at the last minute for undisclosed reasons
Africa Kenya Towns outside Nairobi have registered higher inflation rates than the capital for the first time in close to a decade and amid rising population they overtake the capital in terms of cost of living
Africa Rwanda Former senior Rwandan official Laurent Bucyibaruta has gone on trial in Paris accused of complicity in the African nation's genocide, the highest figure yet to face justice in France over the 1994 massacres
Africa Malawi Several tobacco farmers, facing too low prices for their product for a drop in global demand, are considering switching to the newly legalised marijuana
Europe Ukraine Rock star Bono Vox praised Ukraine's resistance for "freedom" during a performance at a central Kiev metro station on Sunday
Asia Qatar The last two FIFA World Cup 2022 spots will be decided at Qatar’s Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium next month; the announcement comes a little less than 200 days to the first whistle, as the trophy began its tour of the country
Europe Kosovo Two Kosovo Liberation Army ex-leaders now turned politicians pleaded not guilty to additional charges filed by Hague prosecutors alleging they committed further wartime and post-war crimes against civilians
America Belize The NGO Fragments of Hope has spent over a decade planting hundreds of thousands of fragments of coral in reefs affected by hurricanes; recent reports have shown that this project has become one of the most successful coral regeneration sites in the world
Africa Tanzania Tanzania National Parks introduced cycle tourism as 27 cyclists began their climb to the top of the 4.566m Mount Meru this weekend; cycling tourism is seen as a new concept with the potential to diversify incoming visitor
Asia Thailand With 2 weeks to go before the election of Bangkok's new governor, the Election Commission has launched a campaign to urge the public to vote and trucks with loudspeakers are travelling all 50 districts; it is the first governor's election in 9 years
Asia Sri Lanka Over 150 people hospitalized in the Colombo National Hospital following the violence that broke out in the city