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
Oceania Vanuatu The Vanuatu National soccer team and officials have arrived in Qatar, for the 2022 Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) World cup qualifiers
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 Equatorial Guinea Guinea's Punta Europa processing site will receive natural gas from Nigeria according to the latest agreement signed at the International Energy Summit in Abuja
Asia Armenia The transition to digital economy is seen as a key driver of economic growth by the PM, who stressed the role of digital technologies in increasing competitiveness
Africa Burundi In January 2022, the National Platform for Risk Reduction and Disaster Management and its humanitarian partners visited Kirundo province to assess the rainfall shortage situation, finding over 200.000 people affected
Africa Benin Eni and the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries have signed a cooperation agreement to jointly develop agro-industrial chain initiatives to grow oil crops for Eni's biorefining system
Asia Bangladesh The President has asked all stakeholders of the Information Commission to play a more active role in ensuring the right to information at all levels
Oceania Kiribati Kiribati is on the list of countries where the DAZN platform will show the May 7 fight in which super middleweight month champion Saul "canelo" Alvarez will challenge opponents in Las Vegas
Europe France Violent clashes broke out between protesters and police overnight Wednesday to Thursday on France’s Mediterranean island of Corsica as local anger intensified over the assault in prison of a nationalist figure
Asia Afghanistan The country tops the list of countries affected by terrorism in 2021, according to the Global Terrorism Index published by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), which calls Afghanistan the most terror-affected and least peaceful country
Africa Djibouti The Saudi Fund for Development has inaugurated two new projects in the water and housing sector that add to a previously approved one in the transport sector; total investment will reach $137 million
Europe Ukraine MSF reports today full-scale warfare in many areas, making movements difficult, dangerous or simply impossible and estimates around 2,1 million people having left, becoming refugees
Africa Central African Republic WB announced an endowment of over 400 billion CFA francs (€610 million) for development projects; despite problems with implementation, the idea is to reorganise and mobilise the entire government to ensure results at citizens' level