Africa Morocco Rivalry between Morocco and Algeria has a new geopolitical battlefield in the Sahel, where they are deploying radically different strategies; the area is under geopolitical reconstruction after the vacuum left by French withdrawal and the rise of Russia
Europe United Kingdom A high air pollution warning has been issued for London for the first time since August 2020, with the mayor warning that the capital is "importing pollution from the continent" along with a build-up of local emissions
Asia Turkmenistan The start of the spring planting campaign was launched in recent days with the participation of President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, an event with a high value in the country's tradition
Europe Luxembourg Luxembourg has submitted a letter of complaint to Belgium after the country announced it will delay the closure of its nuclear power plants by a decade because of the war in Ukraine
Asia Afghanistan Taliban rulers unexpectedly decided against reopening schools to girls above the 6th grade, reneging on a promise and opting for their hard-line base; the international community has urged to reopen schools and give girls their right to public spaces
Asia Oman The Omani Lawyers Association has launched the ninth edition of the Fak Kurbah initiative to free insolvents incarcerated in the country, with the website www.fakkrba.om through which financial donations can be made to the beneficiaries of the initiative
Asia Turkey A suspension bridge across the Dardanelles Strait has been opened, the latest of Erdogan's major infrastructure projects in the country; linking Turkey's European and Asian coasts, the bridge has the longest main span of any suspension bridge
Africa Tanzania Rajabu, the rhino thought to have the largest family in East Africa and one of the country's most reproductive male rhinos, has died in Tanzania at the age of 43; the eastern black rhino is listed as a critically endangered species
America Haiti Haiti was yesterday the featured country at the Dubai World Expo 2020, with the theme "a land of resilient people turning to renewable energy"
Asia Iraq According to Human Rights Watch in a report published with IraQueer, there are serious crimes that go unpunished against LGBT people, also perpetrated by armed forces
Asia Sri Lanka A committee appointed by Sri Lanka's government said the crisis-hit country's central bank and finance ministry must form a team to seek urgent international financial assistance as the economy is faltering under a foreign currency shortage
Europe Bosnia and Herzegovina New negotiations on amendments to the electoral law have failed after four days of talks in the EU delegation in Sarajevo, mediated by international negotiators
Europe Czech Republic Czech scientists have discovered a way to isolate only healthy sperm to help combat male infertility, being able to identify defective sperm and remove them from sperm samples using magnets
Africa Nigeria The 'Nigeria, full stop' initiative is aimed at fighting against the stigmatisation of Nigerian community in Italian media, with about 35 Nigerian associations clustered around it with the intention of showing a lesser known face of immigration