Geneva-based non-governmental organization, Alkarama, has addressed a correspondence to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, requesting its intervention with the Algerian authorities regarding the young activist Abdelhamid Bouziza, who forcibly disappeared since October 19. Abdelhamid Bouziza, 25 is a peaceful movement activist and social media blogger who had expressed concern about […]
The mandate of the UN mission in the Sahara, MINURSO, will be extended by one year at the expiry of the current mandate this October 31 instead of six months. The one-year extension was proposed by the US and France. UN Security Council broke with its tradition of renewing the UN peacekeeping mission by one […]
Several Moroccan companies have converted their production chains to make personal protective gears (facemasks/shields, gloves…) and even ventilators to help combat the shortage due to the coronavirus pandemic. Sensing the urgent needs, some companies worked night shifts to scale up the country’s daily production of face-masks to over 3.3 million, while other firms such as […]
