Algeria has completed demining operations in fulfilment of its obligations under the Ottawa Convention, clearing 93 mined or suspected mined areas, including 78 former mine barrages, and destroying more than one million antipersonnel mines, local media said. “Thanks to decades of sustained efforts, strong national demining capacities and engagement by authorities at the highest level […]
The World Bank has hailed Morocco’s initiative to combat over-fishing activities off its coasts. The world institution in its new report on global fishing has estimated the deficit caused by overfishing at $83 billion, Moroccan media leconomiste.com reported. Morocco, the report notes, has done greatly to combat the illicit activities. The report also cites Peru, […]
At least 40 people were killed on Monday, August 11, when Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacked the Abu Shouk camp for displaced persons in the war-torn Darfur region, according to local aid groups and citizen-led resistance Committees. El-Fasher, the last major army stronghold in Darfur, also came under heavy assault during the incident, which […]
