Africa Ghana Tradional chief of Berekum area has warned against data leaks by bank staff, reminding that releasing private information is highly discouraging and affects rural areas where it is most important to create and support trust to advance financial inclusion
Oceania Marshall Islands Pacific communities celebrated the 70th year of the nuclear tests on the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, emphasising the call for justice and accountability
Asia Tajikistan Tajikistan must reconsider its attitude towards civil society and consider human rights defenders as allies instead of enemies, said a UN expert after the dissolution of 700 NGOs in the country
Asia Syria Syrian women are still targeted for their political views, ethnic affiliations and the roles they hold, thus facing multi-faced violence, said Najat Rushdi, Deputy UN Special Envoy for Syria
Europe Lithuania The country would risk violating international agreements by unilaterally imposing a ban on the import or transit of Russian wheat, said Agriculture Minister Kestutis Navickas
America Trinidad and Tobago US President Joe Biden nominated a Trinidadian woman to be a district judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia
Africa Republic of the Congo The ambitious Kinshasa-Brazzaville road-rail bridge project, which will connect the two closest capitals in the world, will have a 1.575-metre-long toll bridge over the Congo River, with a railway and a two-lane road and pedestrian crossing
America Mexico Hundreds of protesters demanding justice for 43 missing student teachers from the Ayotzinapa area forcefully entered Mexico's presidential palace, claiming that the government needed to take better action regarding this matter
America Guatemala Guatemala has declared a national epidemiological alert to combat dengue, with three deaths and around 7.000 cases reported this year, amid a significant global rise in dengue cases over the past two decades
Europe Ukraine The Secretary of the Ukrainian Council for Security and National Defence admitted the possibility of the West starting to help Ukraine not only with weapons, but also sending troops, Ukrainska Pravda reported
Europe Slovakia Slovakia should leave NATO and the European Union, while the most important power of the president is the ratification of international agreements, said presidential candidate Robert Svec in a much debated declaration
Asia Taiwan The country recorded its fourth consecutive month of year-on-year export growth in February, with foreign sales up 1,3% year-on-year to $31,43 billion, the second highest ever for the month
Africa South Sudan The elections to be held in South Sudan in December are not on the way to a credible process without urgent action, a senior US State Department official warned, and the government is behind in its preparations
Africa Tunisia Violence against women remains a very present phenomenon, since 84,75% of the women questioned in a national survey by the National Institute of Statistics said they had been victims of at least one act of violence since the age of 15