Sudan’s emergency volunteer network wins Norway’s top human rights award

Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs), a grassroots network of volunteer aid groups, have been awarded the 2025 Rafto Prize for human rights work, in recognition of their life-saving efforts amid the country’s deepening war and humanitarian collapse. Founded during the 2023 civil war between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the ERRs emerged […]

DRC: Eight killed in collision between boat & canoe on lake Kivu

Eight people were found dead Tuesday in South Kivu province, east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after their canoe collided with a boat on lake Kivu in the same province. Mathieu Alimasi Malumbi, the provincial transport minister in a statement to reporters indicated that victims were four women and four men. Their bodies […]

Morocco’s Hilale Co-Chairs UN High-Level Meeting on AI ahead of 1st Global Dialogue in Geneva

Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, co-chaired, Friday in New York, a high-level meeting of the UN Group of Friends on Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development, which focused on preparations for the first Global Dialogue on AI governance, slated for July 6–7 in Geneva, Switzerland. During the meeting, the Global Dialogue’s co-chairs- […]