UNFPA Salama Kit

Sahara: Peaceful Solution to Conflict is Possible (UN Envoy)

“A peaceful solution” to the Sahara conflict is “possible”, said on Thursday Mr. Horst Köhler, the personal envoy of the UN Secretary General for the Sahara at the end of a two-day roundtable held in Geneva. Delegates from Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and the Polisario took part in this initial meeting, the first of its kind […]

Morocco: Former Leftist PM Receives Royal Tribute

A tribute was paid to national figure Abderrahmane El Youssoufi on July 30 by King Mohammed VI who named a street in Tangier after him. With such a tribute, Abderrahmane El Youssoufi, national movement leader, co-founder of the leftist party the USFP and former Prime Minister, becomes one of the rare national personalities who saw […]

Africa at war: 28 of 59 armed conflicts worldwide in 2023 occurred on the continent

About half of the 59 armed conflicts worldwide in 2023 — the highest number since the end of World War II — occurred in Africa, according to a new study released by the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO). Last year witnessed 59 conflicts around the globe, of which 28 armed conflicts took place in […]