Africa Zimbabwe President Mnangagwa signed into law constitutional changes that extend his time in office to 2030; new legislation, approved by Parliament last month, also introduces a provision allowing presidents to be elected by lawmakers instead of direct public vote
Africa Uganda Ugandan online newspaper 'The Observer' published a report showing how disposable nappies are a problem at the Kiteezi landfill in the Wakiso district, which houses most of the waste from the Kampala metropolitan area
Africa Ghana Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyj proposed holding one of the international meetings to discuss the Ukrainian conflict in Ghana
Europe Greece WWF Greece, with four Greek universities from November 2023 to April 2024, revealed the missed opportunities and chronic characteristics that contributed to the destructive forest fires of 2023, adding important lessons to be learnt
Asia Thailand Thailand became the first country in Southeast Asia to legalise same-sex marriage, in a historic parliamentary vote hailed as a 'victory' by activists
Europe Russia Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un signed an agreement in which they pledge to help each other in the event of aggression against either country, a pact cementing a rapidly expanding partnership that has worried a number of neighboring countries and the West
Africa Botswana SafariBookings.com, the online marketplace for safaris in Africa, studied almost 3.600 reviews and announced that Botswana has been awarded the best safari country in Africa
Africa Gabon Among Gabonese youth, N'Tcham has ousted the Nigerian afrobeat and the South African amapiano; in slang, N'Tcham means 'brawl' and is a dance born in prisons that expresses all the violence that exists in working-class neighbourhoods
Africa Equatorial Guinea The new format of the National Games has been presented and explained by the Equatorial Guinea Olympic Committee; the Games will begin with preliminary stages at the end of August
Asia East Timor East Timor has been added to Thailand's list of visa-free nations under reciprocal agreement linked to the country's application to join ASEAN association
Oceania Papua New Guinea Wood has secured a contract worth $18 million from the Newmont mining company to upgrade the Lihir gold mine in Papua New Guinea, with projects focusing on maintenance and improving the condition and performance of the plant
Asia Israel Navi Pillay, of the UN Commission of Inquiry, said her team had presented the ICC with 7.000 pieces of evidence relating to crimes committed by Israel and Hamas: "we have never seen anything like this," she said
America Paraguay Surplus energy is being harnessed to support Paraguay's Bitcoin mining as part of an economic transition; the initiative aims to use revenue from selling energy to legal Bitcoin miners to bolster the country's industrial sector
Asia Turkey Digital maps of water bodies will be created in an attempt to better manage the country's water resources, after a project was initiated to map a total of 270 elements, including dams and artificial ponds currently under construction