Africa Comoros Tayar, the first Comorian ride-hailing app, has been launched with support of Comorian Association of ICT and its incubator Comor'Lab; relying on geolocation, it is designed to enhance road safety and has an alert system connected to emergency services
Africa Botswana A free outdoor community gymnasium has been opened in Francistown; designed to improve the well-being of the inhabitants, it will benefit at least 5.000 people
Africa Ivory Coast The Independent Electoral Commission intends to propose 'compulsory registration on the electoral roll'; 4,5 million citizens are still not registered on the electoral roll out of 12,5 million people of voting age in the country
Asia Turkmenistan Six of the fourteen films by Turkmen authors made it into the final of the Central Asian 'Shoot in 48 Hours' competition; short film 'Owal Ram' (Addiction) won the 'Best Horror/Thriller' nomination
Africa Gabon Transitional President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema expressed his country's desire to reduce dependence on food imports and hoped to benefit from Uganda's experience in wealth creation
America Dominica Thea LaFond made history for the Caribbean island nation of Dominica by winning gold in the triple jump to claim the country's first-ever Olympic medal
Asia Bahrain Huawei BNET, Bahrain's national fibre-optic infrastructure provider, has signed a MoU with Huawei Bahrain to improve the broadband experience for users in the country
Africa Zimbabwe Experts from Russian company HeliDrive, that supplied Zimbabwe with 18 helicopters, 6 of which will be used as air ambulances, are training pilots, doctors, nurses and health personnel to operate in national air ambulance service by the end of the year
Europe Germany In 2023 the German Catholic Church lost more than 591.000 members due to dropouts and deaths and the Protestant Church lost approximately 560.000
Asia Sri Lanka Passports will be issued with new features and three different colours for the identification of diplomatic, official and regular persons from October this year
Africa Guinea-Bissau Football club Sport Bissau and Benfica is the new national champion of Guinea-Bissau for the 2023-2024 football season
Asia Vietnam To achieve the economic growth target of 7,5-8%, HCM City departments are working to remove bottlenecks in the delivery of public investment
Africa Ghana Parliament passed a law to give more job opportunities to women nationwide, with the aim of increasing their participation in governance and decision-making to a minimum of 30% by 2030
Africa Burundi Supplies at the Bururi regional blood transfusion centre have been lacking for more than two weeks and health officials in southern provinces expressed concern for patients