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UNHCR’s Protection Chief Praises Morocco for Efforts to Protect Refugees

UNHCR’s protection chief Volker Türk has praised Morocco for adopting a National Policy on Immigration and Asylum  aiming at offering protection to refugees, the UN Refugee agency said in a statement. “Morocco is the first country on the African continent having signed the 1951 Geneva Convention,” Türk recalled in a speech at a meeting of […]

International NGO decries Algeria for abandoning thousands of migrants in desert

International NGO “Doctors without Borders” denounced on Friday Algeria’s continuing expulsion of thousands of migrants who are abandoned in the desert of northern Niger without access to shelter, healthcare, protection, or basic necessities. Between 11 January and 3 March 2023, 4,677 migrants arrived into Assamaka – a town in northern Niger’s Agadez region – on […]

Shell, Morocco sign LNG supply agreement

Morocco’s electricity and water utility ONEE signed a deal to buy from Shell 0.5 billion cubic meters of liquified natural gas (LNG) over 12 years in a push to increase the share of natural gas in its energy mix, Morocco’s ministry of energy transition said. In the first years, the LNG will be supplied via […]