OCP, NBA team up to promote youth empowerment through sports in Morocco, Rwanda

OCP Group and the National Basketball Association (NBA) tied a new multiyear partnership aiming at expanding the NBA Junior League programs in Morocco and Rwanda, but also at building new basketball courts in Khouribga and Benguerir (Morocco) and in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, while using the transformative power of basketball to empower Moroccan and Rwandan […]

Ethiopia crisis: US, EU urge govt. to restore services in conflict-torn Tigray

Ethiopia’s government should resume essential services in the conflict-torn Tigray region in the north of the country, the United States and European Union envoys for the Horn of Africa have said, after a rare visit to the war-torn region facing dire conditions. Tigray, a region in the north of the country, has been struggling to […]

HRW Slams Algeria again for ‘inhumane treatment of migrants’

Human Rights Watch rebuked Algeria for deporting Sub-Saharan migrants in inhumane conditions, and in many cases without considering their legal status in Algeria or their individual vulnerabilities. “Algeria has the power to control its borders, but that doesn’t mean it can round up people based on the color of their skin and dump them in […]