Asia Syria Hundreds of Kurdish students in Hassakeh and Kobani refused to enter their classrooms as the 2026–27 school year began, protesting a decision that reduces Kurdish-language instruction to three periods per week, demanding the decision be reversed
Asia Armenia The minimum wage is expected to increase to 85.000 dram, about US$178, by 2026; the current monthly minimum wage is 68.000 dram, US$142
Africa Algeria 500 micro-enterprises and startups in various activities of the fisheries sector are to be created to increase fish production to 166.000 tonnes/year by 2024, enhance the value of fisheries products for export and develop a specific shipbuilding industry
Africa Chad Timane Erdimi, the leader of the Union of Resistance Forces (UFR), an alliance of several rebel groups, said he was willing to participate in the pre-dialogue and the inclusive national dialogue under certain conditions
Africa Mauritania The 25th session of the Conference on Archaeology and Cultural Heritage in the Arab World took place in Nouakchott; held once every two years, it discusses the latest developments about conservation and protection of antiquities and cultural heritage
Europe Belarus The Nature Conservation Agency has called for the inclusion of migration corridors for forest animals in the construction of the border fence between the country and Latvia, as the animals risk becoming entangled in the barbwire
Europe Denmark The country has become the first to end public funding of fossil fuels abroad; the new policy furthers the country's strategy of cutting funding to black energy sources
Africa Tunisia A team of doctors formed by Tunisian and Italian specialists has successfully performed the first cardiac catheterisation operations in the paediatric room created in the children's cardiac surgery department of the La Rabta hospital in Tunis
Europe Belgium The fifth edition of the Bright Brussels festival ends today; postponed from February due to the pandemic, 2021 edition stretches along two routes for a total of some 15 highly immersive and artistic light installations on display
Africa Cameroon In the Far North, region with the highest rate of child malnutrition, volunteers from the PIME Lay Association are developing a project to cultivate, process and sell moringa powder, highly marketed for phytosanitary and nutritional purposes
Oceania Solomon Islands Wanting to focus on the digital economy, the country has asked Australia to work with partners to help modernise key government information and communications technology systems
Africa Guinea-Bissau The president of the Bissau Municipality announced the intention to use the green space of the district for cultural events, in particular to broadcast the matches of the national football team "the Djurtus" at the African Cup of Nations
Africa Senegal The young Senegalese writer Mohamed Mbougar Sarr has won the Goncourt Prize, the most important in French literature, given since 1896 to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"
Africa Namibia More than 110 employers have so far informed the Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Creation that they can't afford keeping a total of 880 employees