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Sahara: UN SG Reports on Protests in Tindouf Camps; Polisario’s Violations of Military Agreements & UN Resolutions

The UN Secretary General reported to the UN Security Council the repeated protests taking place in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps in Algeria, with the participation of hundreds of people living in these camps and the continuous violations by the separatist front of the Military Agreements and the Security Council Resolutions as well as its hampering […]

Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana cocoa growers step up fight to improve farmers’ pay

Although Côte d’Ivoire is the world’s top cocoa producing country, accounting for around 45% of the global cocoa beans production, the country receives just 4% of the chocolate industry’s estimated annual returns worth $100bn. Being on the “front lines of the climate crisis,” cocoa farmers in the region harvests suffer, so do their livelihoods, according […]

The African Union should join the G20 leaders group

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for the African Union (AU) to be made a permanent member of the G20, a group of 20 countries with leading economies which come together to discuss policy on health, trade and other issues. Speaking during the Working Session on Food and Energy Security at the G20 Leaders’ […]