The United Nations has called off plans to hold a conference against torture in Cairo after several participant organizations criticized Egypt human rights record. The two-day meeting planned for September 4 is themed “Defining and Criminalizing Torture in Legislation in the Arab Region”. Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights […]
Mauritania is increasingly worried about the mounting terrorist threat in the Sahel that has become a safe heaven for organized crime and terrorism networks. Mauritania’s worries were recently expounded before the 67th session of the UN General Assembly by Mauritanian Foreign Minister Hamadi Ould Hamadi who warned that the Sahel region has become “a safe […]
Henri Claude Oyima, head of Gabon’s private bosses indicated Monday that the country’s struggling National Social Security Fund, CNSS, should be managed by the private sector per recommendations of Inter-African Conference on Social Security (CIPRES). “We are the ones who pay, we think that we have to manage this institution and that the State must […]
