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
Africa Sudan Sudanese banks will receive a money injection from the UAE to support the local economy; the two sides agreed to establish strategic economic partnerships in the areas of roads, ports, railways, military cooperation and exchange of experience
Europe Russia The Russian Court ruled that Meta, that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is an extremist organization and it therefore banned it from operating in the country's territory
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 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 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
Europe Portugal The economy is expected to show "significant growth" despite the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis, said Finance Minister João Leão, given the strong recovery at the end of last year
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
Asia Cambodia The PM recently inaugurated SOS Children's Village in Prey Veng province; the president of the association asked the government to consider including family-style childcare in policy on alternative childcare and increase measures to protect them
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
America Saint Lucia The Ministry of Tourism and the Saint Lucia Tourism Authority have launched "Collection de Pépites", the brand that will fortify the marketing capacity of the country's small hotel businesses by guiding travellers through their stay options
Asia Brunei Ministry of Health is drafting an action plan for mental health issues, intensified during the pandemic and amounting to about 7.000 people, including children and adolescents, undergoing treatment at the Department of Psychiatry and at community level
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 Moldova People suffering from mental illness will benefit from a free judicial or extrajudicial expertise paid for by the state with the aim of improving the judicial protection system with annual expenses of approximately 400.000 lei ($21.000)