On April 29, 2021, the Khovar news agency reported on its website: “Today, on April 29, in Dushanbe, a meeting of the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) - Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan was held. It was chaired by the Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Tajikistan Nasrullo Mahmudzoda.

Delhi, UP, Gujarat, Haryana oxygen demand outstrips supply; PM Modi holds crisis meeting Records show, the demand for medical oxygen has increased by 18 per cent over the last six days across 12 states, which account for 83 per cent of active cases in the country. [The Indian Express|24th April 2021]

Nigerian President Muhammad Buhari has urged the US to relocate US Africa Command to Africa from its headquarters in Germany. In a virtual meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken 

This week in the Quds of the occupied Palestine, the image went viral depicting strength, admiration and fearlessness, a Palestinian man standing in the midst of a tear gas bomb thrown by the IDF.