Horst Köhler at security council

Morocco: Independent rights watchdog delivers verdict on Melilla deadly crossing

Morocco’s National Human Rights Council (CNDH), a constitutional and independent rights watchdog, has published a detailed report on its fact-finding mission to Nador where it has talked to public authorities, injured migrants, health workers and civil society activists and conducted examinations of the bodies of dead migrants at the morgue and investigated videos. The CNDH […]

Libya : Es Sider port reopens as Acting Oil Minster leaves

Oil exportation has begun at the Es Sider port, Libya’s biggest oil port, after being closed for a long time. The spokesman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mohamed El Harari, confirmed that the loading of 600,000 barrels of oil onto a tanker. Libya is still below the 1,4million barrels per day exportation it reached […]

UN: 5 new members to join Security Council starting January 2023

The 193-member UN General Assembly held elections Thursday to elect five new non-permanent members of the Security Council. Japan, Mozambique, Ecuador, Malta and Switzerland were thus elected to replace the members whose terms expire Dec. 31. The newly elected will serve as non-permanent members of UN Security Council from 2023 – 2024. The new members […]