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
Asia Syria President Bashar al-Assad met with the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and the Emir of Dubai, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, his first visit to an Arab state since the outbreak of war in Syria on 15 March 2011
Europe Austria A second €2bn 'anti-inflation package' has been launched amid criticism given the heavy emphasis on commuter subsidies, as it is considered highly damaging to the environment
America Barbados Hydrogene de France with local stakeholders is seeking to develop a $270 million hydrogen power plant, the largest in the Caribbean; the photovoltaic facility will be combining the solar project with sheep farming, benefitting 16.000 households
Africa Malawi Egyptian multinational Elsewedy Electric will build a 50-MW solar power plant; Energy Minister stressed the need to increase energy production in the country, heavily dependent on hydroelectric power plants and therefore very vulnerable to climate change
Africa Cameroon The Minister of Water and Energy has ordered the rationing of 'energy-intensive' companies to allow households to be supplied in the midst of the crisis caused by, among other things, February's drop in production at the Memvé'élé dam in the dry season
Africa Morocco Under an agreement recently signed in Essaouira, the first Chair in Jewish Law will be established at the Mohammed V University in Rabat
Africa South Sudan The United Nations Security Council has extended the mandate of the Mission in South Sudan (Unmiss) until 15 March 2023, confirming a ceiling of 17.000 soldiers and 2.101 policemen as part of the mission forces
Africa Mozambique According to the latest information released by the National Institute for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction (INGD), Gombe has affected 400.175 people and displaced at least 24.000
Africa Ivory Coast There are 28 million permanent residents in the country, a fifth of whom live in the economic capital district of Abidjan, which has a population density thirty times higher than the national average, according to the fifth general census
Africa Burkina Faso Architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has won the Pritzker Prize, the most prestigious in the world for architecture, considered "the Nobel Prize of architecture", awarded for the first time to an African
Europe Norway A new UNICEF report shows that almost 70% of Norwegian teenagers think that people in positions of power are not doing enough to stop racism; the document also reports that 37% of racism cases is for skin colors and 25% for religion
Africa Senegal The Akon City project, an Afrofuturist city inspired by the imaginary kingdom of Black Panther, Wakanda, is at starting point, with talks of financial fraud and land swindle, with the alleged complicity of state institutions
Europe Italy Today the country celebrates the XXVII Memorial day for remembrance and commitment of innocent victims of mafias; the 2022 main march will take place in Naples while hundreds of towns across Italy, Europe, Africa and Latin America will host smaller events