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Morocco re-elected member of UN Committee on Child’s Rights

Moroccan law professor Hynd Ayoubi Idrissi has been re-elected member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child for the third consecutive term. The re-election that took place during a vote held Monday in New York by States Parties to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international recognition […]

Calls mount to remove Sahara File from UN’s C24

Calls are intensifying for the Sahara issue to be withdrawn from the United Nations’ Special Committee on Decolonization (C24), with advocates arguing that recent diplomatic developments, including Security Council Resolution 2797, have fundamentally reframed the dispute as a political and regional question that should be settled on the basis of Morocco’s autonomy plan rather than […]

Laurent Gbagbo urges ECOWAS to set up regional counterterrorism brigade

Laurent Gbagbo, Cote d’Ivoire’s ex-leader, has called on regional grouping ECOWAS to establish counter-terrorism brigade to curtail terrorism that has plagued the region. Gbagbo was speaking at a meeting of his party PPA-CI, at Bayota, a town in south-central Ivory Coast. “The problem in the Sahel today is the jihadists,” he said. For a 77-year […]