18 April 2024

1. Tunisia- Italy, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was in Tunisia yesterday to reinforce cooperation between the two countries on migration.

1. Libya- United Nations (UN), Abdoulaye Bathily, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), has tendered his resignation to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

1. Barbardos – UN, A high-level Caribbean ambassador David Commissiong says it is crucial to establish a new international special tribunal to seek reparations for transatlantic slavery and its legacies in today's society.

1. ECF-SADC - South Afrika, The Electoral Commissions Forum of SADC Countries undertakes a solidarity visit to the Electoral Commission of South-Africa as a member commission to establish its preparedness for the upcoming elections and to exchange on possible collaboration, support initiatives and other issues of mutual interest.

1. In our historical archives, it was on this day 18 April 1980 when Zimbabwe was liberated from its colonial master United Kingdom and when Bob Robert Marley and Robert Mugabe celebrated independence moments.