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One Ocean Summit: Morocco part of 40-member international coalition for protection of marine biodiversity

A coalition bringing together the 27 states of the European Union and 13 other countries, including Morocco, was announced on Friday at the One Ocean Summit, with the aim of achieving an international treaty on the protection of high seas, an area of ecological lawlessness, currently under negotiation. The announcement was made by French President […]

Inflation: govts across Africa struggle to tame soaring prices, help poor people

Lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war pose huge challenges to the continent, a recent African Economic Outlook report by the African Development Bank (ADB) concluded. As the war in Ukraine and coronavirus pandemic continue to bite, pushing millions of Africans into extreme poverty, locals are hoping initiatives by the ADB and […]

Int’l Rights Watchdogs Slam Algeria for Discriminating against Amazigh Minority

Human Rights Watch, EuroMed Rights, Amnesty International, and Front Line Defenders have condemned in the strongest terms Algeria’s discrimination against the Amazigh (Berber) minority and called for dropping all charges against Kamaleddine Fekhar, a leading human rights activist and his 40 co-defendants. The international rights NGOs recalled, in a statement published on Human Rights Watch […]