Africa Morocco Rivalry between Morocco and Algeria has a new geopolitical battlefield in the Sahel, where they are deploying radically different strategies; the area is under geopolitical reconstruction after the vacuum left by French withdrawal and the rise of Russia
Africa Somalia Qatar Red Crescent Society will provide medical services to hundreds of low-income patients to help them recover; the organisation will also supply hospitals with essential medical equipment to allow quality services to continue
Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo Authorities will set up an independent investigation to punish local officials implicated in the sexual assaults described by the WHO investigation; the pledge comes as whistleblowers have received threats for pressing for punishment
Europe Netherlands Thousands of volunteers have been helping to clean up the plastic swimming in Friesland's waters during the Skjin Wetter clean-up campaign, which ends today; 30 organisations and six municipalities have been involved in this goal
Africa Sierra Leone Kingho Investment Company, through various donations of equipment to the Information Crimes Unit in the capital has furthered its collaborative work with the security sector; it also donated bags of cement for the construction of a hospital in Makeni
America United States Electric automaker Tesla is moving its corporate HQ from California to Austin, Texas, validating the rise of the city to technology hub; CEO Elon Musk said they will be creating ‘an ecological paradise around the Colorado River’
Asia Saudi Arabia At least 89 US citizens, legal permanent residents and visa holders and their relatives have been detained by authorities in Saudi Arabia or banned from leaving the country in 2021, according to a new report by Freedom Initiative
Europe Montenegro Health Minister Jelena Borovinic Bojovic is in the midst of a lot of criticism for choosing to destroy the expiring AstraZeneca vaccines, instead of donating them when they could still have been used
Oceania Marshall Islands The book Our Ocean's Promise tells the story of how the country went from being a bystander in the Pacific commercial fishery to running the world's busiest tuna transshipment port, two processing plants, a net repair yard and a fleet of fishing vessels
Africa Gabon The country has become the 14th member state to deposit the instrument of ratification of the African Medicines Agency, aimed among other things at harmonising the regulation of medical products and improving the competence of GMP inspectors
America Uruguay The country re-entered the European Union’s tax haven “graylist” due to the recent publishing of the Pandora Papers, making the government start discussions in regards as to how the nation can improve fiscal transparency
America Colombia The country deployed around 14.000 troops near the Venezuelan border in order to take over a conflicted zone where multiple armed groups are competing for cocaine production control
America Brazil Supporters of the opposition united to protest against president Jair Bolsonaro on the streets this week, demanding once again his impeachment mostly for the rise in fuel prices and his alleged mishandling of the pandemic
America Belize Recent studies show that, with respect to the beginning of the pandemic, the vacation home market in the country will have grown approximately 300% by the end of this year