As many as 50 migrants who recently attempted to reach Spain via boat from West Africa drowned, according to the migrant rights organization Walking Borders, whose new report also found that over 10,457 migrants lost their lives last year while attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean to reach Canary Islands. Walking Borders reported on Thursday […]
The decision of the European Union court to annul two free trade agreements between Rabat and Brussels “is nothing less than an insult to international law,” writes the pan-African magazine “Jeune Afrique”. On September 29, responding to an appeal filed by the polisario separatists, the European court ruled for the annulment of two trade agreements […]
The World Health Organization and the UN Fund for Road Safety received the first Mohammed VI International Road Safety Prize, a distinction aimed at rewarding innovative initiatives in the fight against road insecurity. The distinction was awarded at the opening of the Fourth Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety. Each of the two international institutions […]
