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
Oceania Marshall Islands A weekly climate webinar is being organised by Jo-Jikum and the RMI Climate Change Directorate, with both face-to-face and online sessions and international guests
America Mexico In this past month, 210.000 migrants at the US border were arrested, the highest monthly total in two decades
Africa Mozambique A study by the Institute for Multiparty Democracy, a Mozambican NGO, has reported a decline in the political representation of young people in the country, noting that this context damages the participation of this population group in elected bodies
America Guyana The World Bank recently announced that the country’s economy had grown by 72% since the start of the pandemic, being the highest economic growth in Latin America as well the Caribbean
America Haiti After years of trees being cut down to make charcoal, causing soil erosion and making it impossible to farm, rural communities in Haiti's Nord-Ouest department are implementing new measures to improve weather resilience with the support of WFP
Asia Maldives The Maldives Transport and Contracting Company has completed the port development project at F. Dharanboodhoo: dredgeding, building of a breakwater, a quay wall, a channel and a 140-metre barrier
America Paraguay The Paraguay River has reached its highest water level in two years, allowing the long awaited re-connection with the ports of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Bolivia to transport merchandise
Asia Kyrgyzstan The country has received additional quotas for duty-free imports of white and raw sugar, as announced by the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) trade minister
Europe San Marino The University of San Marino has opened the opportunity to apply for two scholarships for a research on San Marino Public Administration
Oceania Nauru Health authorities have warned the public against Kinder chocolate products after reports of a recent Salmonella outbreak in several countries
Europe Ireland A Wexford hotelier has said providing accommodation for refugees from Ukraine, currently housed at dozens of the country's hotels, will become "unsustainable" as the summer season hits, unless more support comes from the government
America Nicaragua The government announced that it will subsidies 100% of all further gas increases that might take place
Asia Malaysia Exports rose 25,4% year-on-year to a new high of MYR 131,64 billion (USD 30,99 billion) in March, according to official data, driven by external demand for electrical/electronic and commodity-based products