Africa Sierra Leone A ship departed from Freetown was intercepted and diverted to Canary Islands, in a crackdown on international drug trafficking; Spanish police found aboard 35-40 tonnes of cocaine in what has been called “record-breaking cocaine seizure in the Atlantic”
Oceania Nauru Amnesty International Australia and refugee rights groups have stated that the 40 people who recently sought asylum in Western Australia and were brought to the island of Nauru to be processed in offshore detention should head back to Australia
Africa Uganda The Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Hillary Onek, appealed to the international community to increase funding for Uganda to enable it to feed its growing refugee population
Oceania Marshall Islands A spirited march to launch Education Week in Majuro saw hundreds of students and teachers unite from the Alele Museum to the College of the Marshall Islands
Asia Kuwait Fingerprinting has been declared mandatory for all citizens and residents by The General Administration of Security and Media Relations, following an update by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior
Europe Latvia The Food and Veterinary Service will begin intensifying checks at the EU's external borders on consignments of food and fodder from today to exclude risks to human and animal health and to verify that consignments comply with EU legislation
Asia Uzbekistan The male students of school No. 2 in Navoi were gathered in the gymnasium and had their hair cut en masse by the school headmaster, Nurkobil Yusupov, who allegedly invited a hairdresser and ordered the boys from different classes to get their hair cut
Asia Kazakhstan A conference on improving investment attractiveness in mining was held in Astana, where Minister of Industry and Construction emphasised the role in attracting foreign direct investment, worth over US$200 billion over the past decade, 60% of total invests
Asia Lebanon The suspension of financial support by donor countries to the UN agency for UNRWA will put at risk the education of 38.000 Palestinian refugee children in Lebanon
Europe Germany The approximately seven million Germans - almost one-tenth of the population - who, according to Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, habitually consume cannabis will be able to legally purchase cannabis 'for recreational use' from 1 April
Africa Zambia The National Heroes Stadium, Zambia's ultra-modern stadium in Lusaka, which was designated as a national cholera center at the height of the outbreak, has no one admitted as the country continues to see a steady decline in cases
Africa Malawi The government has suspended the issuance of passports for the past two weeks due to ransomware attack on immigration service's computer network; President Chakwera said hackers are demanding a ransom, but the government has no intention of paying
Asia Kyrgyzstan Over 95% of Kyrgyzstan's water resources are used for irrigation and agricultural consumption, according to the Ministry of Water Resources, Agriculture and Processing Industry
Europe Kosovo Approximately 57.000 citizens of Kosovo have renounced their citizenship from the beginning of 2008 until the end of 2023, the main reason being the ban on dual citizenship in several states