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 Rwanda Diane Rwigara, a Rwandan activist known to be among the most critical of President Paul Kagame, has announced her intention to run in July's presidential elections; in 2017 she had been barred from running for 'technical reasons'
Africa Kenya Kenyan doctors have ended their 56-day strike that paralysed the public health system as an agreement was reportedly reached with the government; the issue of the remuneration of trainee doctors remains, a matter that will now be decided by a court
Africa Sudan Médecins Sans Frontières has withdrawn staff from the Madani Teaching Hospital, the only functioning hospital for hundreds of thousands of people in the capital of Al Jazirah State - an 'extremely difficult' decision taken after months of challenges
Africa Liberia A tribunal for economic and war crimes committed during the 14 years of civil war that plagued Liberia between the 1990s and 2000 will be established upon executive order signed by President Joseph Boakai
Africa Ethiopia 40% of the Ethiopian population lacks proper personal documents, according to Yodahe Arayaselasie, CEO of the National ID Programme
Oceania Australia Australian airline Qantas will pay AUS$120 million ($79 million) to a consumer group after being accused of selling over 8.000 tickets for flights that had already been cancelled by its operating systems
Europe North Macedonia Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, 70, will become the first female president of North Macedonia; she was the candidate of the nationalist opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, which also won the parliamentary elections
Europe Switzerland Switzerland will not be participating in the European Copernicus programme to monitor climate change from 2021 to 2027 although Parliament had voted in favor; the reason given by the government is the strained state of federal finances
Africa Chad Mahamat Idriss Deby's victory in the first round of the presidential elections was announced by the National Election Management Authority; the current transitional president, heir to his father-president Idriss Deby Itno, obtained 61% of the vote
Asia Iran Mohammad Rasoulof, winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival with 'Evil does not exist', accused of plotting against national security by making films and documentaries against the regime is sentenced to caning and five years in prison
Africa Nigeria Death penalty for traffickers of hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin has been established as extreme measure, passed by Senate, in a radical move to combat drug trafficking
Africa Ghana Abubakar Tahiru, a 29-year-old forestry student from Ghana, set a new world record for the most trees hugged in one hour: 1123 trees, 19 a minute; the record-breaking challenge took place at the Tuskegee National Forest in Alabama, United States
Europe Hungary A new nutritional watchdog website has been launched to address the lack of transparency in data on the side effects of dietary supplements, a growing market; the website seeks to counter the frequent cases of misleading advertising