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
Africa Gambia The Ministry of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment has reassured the public on the availability of quality edible cooking oil, partly due to the December 2021 agreement signed with Sierra Leone
America Panama As the country is racing to restore 50.000 hectares of forest by 2025, the government has begun to fund the Agua Salud Project, a multi-pronged reforestation research approach that is testing various techniques to turn degraded lands back to normal
Africa Somalia The African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) has announced that its mandate will end today 31 March, after 14 years of operation; the force will pass the baton to the African Union Transitional Mission in Somalia (Atmis)
America Suriname The National Red Cross and the National Coordination Center for Disaster Management (NCCR) are currently joining forces to assist the 3.000 households that have been affected by severe flooding throughout the country
Asia South Korea 48% of call center workers have had suicidal thoughts according to a survey issued yesterday by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea; reasons for thinking of taking their own lives: poor labor conditions, mental fatigue, extreme emotional stress
Asia China The country's most extensive shutdown in two years will enter its ‘phase-2 stage’ today; to conduct mass testing and control a local outbreak in Shanghai with a lighter economic impact, East and West river sides are following different closure dates
Europe Spain More than half of women in Spain say they have been the target of sexist statements about being bad drivers
Asia India Several trade unions in Bharat called a nationwide strike on 28 and 29 March against "anti-worker, anti-farmer, anti-people and anti-national policies", like reduction in the interest rate on the employees' provident fund organisation or fuel price hike
Europe North Macedonia Around 140 fires - bush, forest, building and households - were recorded in March, some of them very serious, with damage estimated at around 38,5 million euros, according to the director of the Crisis Management Center (Cmc)
Europe Belgium According to a report by Het Laatste Nieuws, US President Biden's visit to the city has been accompanied by about 50 vehicles and 500 to 1.000 staff members, at an estimated cost of €6,8 million, or €2.368 per minute
Africa Sao Tome and Principe The population of northern São Tomé has been using for over two months untreated water, with the Director General of Natural Resources and Energy calling for the situation to be restored
America Guyana The government has set aside approximately USD$23 million for the 2022 national budget to address the recent steep increase in prices
Oceania Australia The country's biggest carbon traders have sought to make a coordinated defense of troubled carbon offset regime, after weeks of political upheaval and claims that most carbon offsets issued by the government do not represent real emissions reductions