Water & Food Security: Morocco & FAO Set $31.5 Mln Cooperation Program

Morocco and the UN Food & Agriculture Organization have agreed on a new cooperation program worth $31.5 million destined to enhance the Kingdom’s food and water security and climate change mitigation actions. The four-year program was signed Wednesday by minister of agriculture Mohamed Sadiki and FAO representative in Morocco, Jean Senahoun, on the sidelines of […]

African Civil Society Wants AU to Put End to Ordeal of Sub-Saharans in Algeria

Civil society associations in Guinea, Gabon and Niger have urged the African Union to put the issue of the human rights violations by Algerian authorities against Sub-Saharan migrants on the agenda as Algiers continues arbitrary expulsions of would-be migrants who are often abandoned in the desert on the borders with Niger. At a time the […]

UN: Moroccan Mahjoub El Haiba elected member of Human Rights Committee

Moroccan Mahjoub El Haiba has been elected member of the Human Rights Committee, an independent experts’ body that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by its State parties. His election was made Thursday in New York during the 38th Meeting of States Parties to the International Covenant of Civil and […]