Asia Bahrain 394.000 visitors have been registered in state-run heritage sites in January-August 2026, with the Bahrain Fort accounting for 246.409, nearly two thirds of the total, and foreign visitors prevailed with the presence of 187.567 people
Africa Burundi The local government has signed an agreement with the Tanzanian government to build a 282-kilometre railway linking the towns of Gitega (Burundi) band Uvinza (Tanzania)
Africa Kenya In the Samburu reserve in the north of the country, an elephant has given birth to twins; twin births account for only 1% of the elephant population
Africa Algeria The Algerian athletics association organised the national cross country festival in the capital this weekend, despite the increase in Covid-19; the event, open to athletes of all ages, is a possibility for the next Arab championships in Bahrain on 22/02
Asia Sri Lanka Efforts continue by authorities and local people to clean the sea from billions of plastic pellets leaked from a ship sunk last May; reaching up to 2 mt deep, they are taken as food by birds and fish, doing enormous damage to the environment and tourism
Europe Bosnia and Herzegovina Representatives of Croatian and Bosnian political parties in the country, who were supposed to agree on changes to the electoral law during a three-day negotiating session, failed to come closer in their views
Europe Ireland Relatives of the 1972 victims marched Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when British troops fired on unarmed civilians, leaving 14 dea, in the protest organized by NICRA against internment without trial
Africa Ethiopia To give teachers the tools to reach isolated kids, Unesco and Huawei organized three two-day pilot seminars to train in distance learning methodologies 117 teachers from all levels of education; over half of them are women
Asia North Korea Photographs taken from the country's most powerful missile launch in five years, with the missile reaching a maximum altitude of 2.000km, have been released; Pyongyang has conducted a record number of seven missile launches in January
America Haiti According to Transparency International's 2021 corruption rankings, the country, ranking 164/180, is the most corrupt in the Caribbean area
Africa Nigeria 7 UN agencies have been indicted for tax evasion by the local revenue agency of Borno State; although international laws exempt them from paying taxes as an entity, this principle cannot apply to their employees and contractors in Nigeria
Africa Egypt A four-wheel vehicle powered by oil and natural gas has been presented as a replacement of the 3,5 million tuk-tuks circulating
Oceania New Zealand The Ika Rere, the first 100% battery-operated electric ferry operating in Wellington on behalf of East by West Ferries, will be operative at the end of the first quarter of 2022; one charge makes the round trip possible and takes 15 minutes to recharge
Europe Hungary The teachers, represented by the Teachers' Union (PSZ) and the Democratic Teachers' Union (PDSZ), are demanding a pay rise from the government and an end to the policy of sending unvaccinated teachers on unpaid leave