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 Sudan A new political agreement must be reached by June, according to UN and African Union envoys, as the political stalemate after the coup has contributed to renewed pressure on the economy and clashes between protesters and security forces
Africa South Africa South African judge Raymond Zondo has been appointed as the new head of the Constitutional Court, the country's highest court; he was previously in charge of the investigation into state corruption under President Jacob Zuma
Europe Denmark The country will increase defense spending and hold a referendum on June 1st on joining the common EU defense policy, with the government saying that Denmark’s leading political parties 'agree that European security is threatened'
Africa Kenya US-based biotechnology company Moderna plans to invest more than $500 million in a mRNA vaccine and drug manufacturing facility in the country
Asia Azerbaijan The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the People of Azerbaijan plans to fully integrate its services into the "government cloud" (G-Cloud), with $5,3 million allocated from the state budget for the transition in 2022
Africa Niger Nigerien director Aicha Macky's film Zinder has won the best feature film award at the Festival Femmes Afrique in Dakar, Senegal, a film festival dedicated to women; the festival ends a tour of eight regions of the country today
Africa Malawi Communities around Mzedi Hill have taken Chinese quarry mining company Sino Sky Industrial to court over noise and air pollution, alleging that houses are cracking for the blasting activities; Sino Sky claims the case is not under High Court jurisdiction
Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo 27 million people - about a quarter of the population - faced severe food insecurity as of September 2021, according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Africa Djibouti International Djibouti Industrial Park Operation and Air Djibouti signed a partnership agreement with Ethiopian Airlines Cargo to start multimodal sea-air transport between China and Africa
Africa Tunisia The Date Technical Centre in Kebili conducts field and laboratory research in order to increase the quantity and quality of date production, which is severely threatened by climate change
Africa Mali A virtual gallery containing thousands of ancient Malian documents has been launched, with 40.000 documents written in ancient Arabic being digitised and made available online by Google together with local and international partners
Africa Ivory Coast ECOWAS, aiming to improve development and financing in all key economic sectors in the country, has pledged to further increase funding; despite rising GDP, the poverty rate has risen sharply in recent decades
America Grenada 200 Ghanaians studying medicine in Ukraine, whose education was interrupted due to the Russian invasion, can now continue their studies in Grenada