Asia Philippines An Air Quality Index has been issued amid temporary haze from Indonesian forest fires; The Health Department advised residents to wear masks, limit outdoor activities, and remain indoor if possible
Africa Mozambique UN Women has graduated, in different professional sectors, a total of 960 women from areas affected by armed violence in the Sofala province as part of the Peace and Development Project
Africa Algeria Air Algérie will launch flights to Qatar, with two flights per week between Algiers and Doha; this route is part of the government's efforts to strengthen and improve the country's accessibility
Africa Madagascar The lychee harvest campaign has begun in the Atsinanana region; according to the authorities of the city of Toamasina, more than 1.500 lychee pickers are taking part
Africa Angola The Finance Minister explained that the salary increase planned for the civil service, in 2022, aims to restore the purchasing power of families; any increase will be done according to the limits of the government's available financial capacity
America Trinidad and Tobago A cross section of key agency representatives participated in the five-day virtual multi-stakeholder training exercise on post-disaster needs assessment methodology
Africa Republic of the Congo Thousands of passports are now available in authorized services and citizens can fetch them, as the State's debt to the German company in charge of producing the passports has been definitively settled
Oceania Tuvalu After touring the world with his speech standing knee-deep in water where land used to be, the foreign minister said the summit pact should have called for the phasing out, rather than phasing down, of coal use
Africa Seychelles The names of 15 streets in the capital Victoria that commemorate the 1977 coup will be changed: 5th June Avenue, which name is directly linked to the facts, will become Constitution Avenue, in an effort to remove existing political divisions
Africa Botswana The Pension Funds Act is about to be amended to allow members of pension funds to borrow directly or use part of the pension as collateral for mortgage loans
Europe Belarus Another batch of humanitarian aid collected by public associations totalling more than three tons has been delivered to refugees stranded at the border with Poland; Polish security forces used water cannons against migrants on the Belarusian border side
Africa Burkina Faso The country recently accepted its first female pilot into the air force, Honorine Moyenga
Africa Guinea The disappearance of edible caterpillars, called "zogolo" in the local dialect, due to the decimation of the forests that served as their habitat, is worrying the people of Lola prefecture, the main production area
Asia Maldives One hundred thousand signatures, making about 1/5 of the total population including minors, have been secured from the petition calling for a constitutional referendum to switch from a presidential to a parliamentary system