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Morocco: Over 133,000 people applied to join military service

The restoration of military service in Morocco was met with success as 133,820 young people, including 13,614 women, voluntarily registered their names in the census lists. Girls made up 10.7% of total applicants according to a statement of the interior ministry which said that the list of the beneficiaries will be determined by local authorities. […]

Rabat & Addis Ababa Want to Speed up Access to Sustainable Energy

Morocco and Ethiopia are looking into ways of speeding up the implementation of the “Coalition for Access to Sustainable Energy”, an initiative launched by the two African countries during the Climate Action summit convened last year in New York. The initiative, which aims to ensure full access to energy for the least developed and other […]

DRC urges ICC to prioritize crimes in country’s east as peace talks yield no progress

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has urged International Criminal Court (ICC) to prioritize crimes committed in the country’s volatile eastern provinces, as a third round of peace talks has ended with no reported progress toward settling conflict. DRC’s Justice minister Rose Mutombo, who took part on 6 December in the meeting of the Assembly of […]