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
America Trinidad and Tobago The delivery of justice in TT ‘is unacceptably slow’ laments PM, despite having given to the judiciary highest priority, millions invested, fresh human resources and with new strategies hundreds of thousand of cases were taken off the system
Asia Turkmenistan Early presidential elections will be held today; Central Election Commission confirmed that the order to hold the elections came from the president
Asia Brunei Hydrocarbon production will be ramped up with dedicated budget in the upstream and downstream oil and gas sectors after discovering 42 million barrels of oil; energy sector is expected to recover in 2022 as oil score seven-year high
Africa Libya The Turkish-Libyan Business Council predicts that Libya's trade volume with Turkey will reach $15 billion within 5 years; in February alone, Turkish exports to the country amounted to $265,5 million
Asia Israel Israeli Druze singer Mike Sharif tries to bridge the gap between Palestinians and Israelis by reaching out to Palestinian society, preparing performances in Arabic for Palestinian weddings and other events
Asia Saudi Arabia The Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources and Energy have teamed up with the Non-Oil Revenues Development Center to grant industrial licences to facilities operating in the renewable energy and power plant sectors
Africa Togo The number of businesses created by women grew by 24% between 2019 (with 3.049 enterprises) and 2021 (3.739), according to data from the Business Formality Centre; over 70% borrowed money for their businesses
Africa Guinea-Bissau The Organising Committee of the VIth Ordinary Congress of the National Union of Teachers will hold the magnum meeting of teachers today after a postponement due to the state of alert
Europe Sweden The Migration Agency has asked for help from "anyone who can provide it" to cope with the flow of Ukrainian refugees; 3.500 Ukrainians have already applied for asylum in the country, of whom 900 have received help from the agency to find accommodation
Africa Cameroon This year marks the beginning of the link between Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition and Cameroon, which will be present for the first time with its own pavilion at the 59th edition
Africa Burkina Faso The series 'De plus en plus loin', the first 100% Burkinabe produced by Canal+, is now on view, aiming to raise awareness of the phenomenon of migration and showcase the country's 'cinematographic talent'
Africa Morocco War in Ukraine “will have no impact on the availability of the products [...], rather on the prices which will increase“, said government spokesperson at the weekly press briefing, detailing products imported from Ukraine and Russia and the alternatives
Africa South Sudan The Community empowerment for progress organisation has launched a quarterly magazine called Voice of Women, to make the point of view of women heard in politics, academia, civil society, media, business, non-gov entities, public and private sectors