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Rabat hosts World Pre-Forum on Human Rights

Rabat hosted this February 17-18 the World Pre-Forum on Human Rights as a prelude to the third World Forum on Human Rights (WFRH) will take place in Argentina in March 2023. The global pre-forum was organized by the Moroccan Human Rights Council (CNDH) and the International Center for the Promotion of Human Rights (CIPDH-UNESCO), which […]

Macron’s Africa tour confirms waning French influence

Right after announcing a new French foreign policy in Africa, Emmanuel Macron started an African tour that led him so far to Angola, Gabon and afterwards to DRC, where France was reminded that its patronizing attitude will lead it to lose more friends on the continent. In Kinshasa, President Felix Tshisekedi told Macron in front […]

US airstrike kills founding member of al-Shabab, Yusuf Jiis

The United States announced it has killed a founding member of the militant Islamist group al-Shabab, Yusuf Jiis, in an airstrike in Somalia carried out on April 2. The US Africa Command said in a press release Tuesday that its post-strike assessments confirm that one of the three terrorists killed in the command’s Apr. 2 […]