UN SG Antonio Guterres extends condolences to King Mohammed VI over death of two Moroccan peacekeepers

The United Nations paid tribute to the men and women serving under its flag in some of the most dangerous places in the world during a ceremony in New York on Thursday to mark the International Day of UN Peacekeepers. During the ceremony, Morocco’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, received the Dag […]

HRW Denounces Algeria’s Detention of Pro-Autonomy Activists

Human Rights Watch has called on Algerian authorities “to release or try in a fair and open trial a pro-Amazigh activist, Kameleddine Fekhar, and his 24 co-defendants”. Fekhar has since 2013 called for autonomy of the Mzab, a northern Sahara region, and has condemned the Algerian government for “complicity in crimes against humanity by Sunni […]

Can Africa create half a billion jobs by 2050 to overcome its demographic dilemma?

Since Africa’s population has quadrupled since 1960, and is projected to double again by 2050, experts are pondering a crucial question for the future of the continent: how can enough work be created for the increasing numbers of youth arriving on the continent’s labor markets? Development economists have followed with a great concern that, in […]