Africa Uganda Uber has ended its operations in Uganda after having been a commodity in the local urban transport for over a decade; the exit takes immediate effect and follows extensive review of Uber's business priorities across Africa
Africa Kenya Kajiado County leaders have called on unemployed youths to register for the numerous places available for phase three of the 'Kazi Mtaani' initiative which acts as an economic buffer for vulnerable youths in informal settlements
Asia Nepal Feed Industry Private Ltd, buying chicken eggs from doorstep farmers across the country, is relieving poultry farmers from lack of easy market access for their products
Asia Laos The government aims to attract 709 enterprises to Special Economic Zones (SEZs) over the next five years to create jobs for local people and generate more revenue for the state budget
Asia Vietnam Nguyen Trọng Hieu, formerly a student at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, has received a research fund from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency to develop a new generation solar battery project
Europe Iceland Dora Olafsdottir is the oldest person in the country's history, now 109 years and 170 days old; Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir recently visited her at the Skjól nursing home to congratulate her
Asia United Arab Emirates A year after premarital sex was decriminalized, unmarried mothers can no longer go to jail for having a baby, but they do if they do not have documents for their children, which they can't get, being de facto trapped in a bureaucratic limbo
Europe Andorra The Minister of Culture and Sport and the Director of the Service for Linguistic Policies presented the new awareness campaign on the use of the official language aimed at the entire population, highlighting the richness of Catalan
America Peru The World Travel Awards (WTA) granted the country with three distinctive recognitions: World’s leading cultural destination, best culinary site, and top tourist attraction of 2021
Africa Ghana Analysis of the fruit processing sector shows it is under-utilised, with only about 62% of total capacity actually operating at peak production; high production losses, unfavourable national regulations, cheap imported juices on the market cause this
Europe North Macedonia The country ended the third quarter of 2021 with 2,03 million active mobile users, up from 1,86 million in the previous quarter, according to data from industry regulator AEK
Africa Zambia A recent board meeting of the Times of Zambia has decided to liquidate the newspaper company, the oldest newspaper entity in the country; all 200 workers will lose their jobs by June
America Antigua and Barbuda The government has sent EC$2.000.000 to the court-appointed receiver of LIAT - the Carabbean airline - for distribution to former LIAT workers residing in the country
Africa Uganda Linneti Kirungi, the founder and executive director of Hope Care Rescue Mission (Hocram), a non-governmental organisation that supports acid survivors, called for stricter laws against the sale of acid and against perpetrators