A growing convergence of conflict, climate shocks, and waning international support has driven displacement in West and Central Africa to record levels, with nearly 13 million people uprooted, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Commemorating the World Refugee Day on June 20, the Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies highlighted in an analysis that “displaced […]
Former Egyptian female soccer star Faiza Heidar has been tasked to train fourth division side Ideal Goldi, becoming therefore the country’s first female technician to coach a men’s professional team. The former captain of Egypt’s female national soccer team is the only Egyptian woman to be certified by England’s Premier League to coach across […]
US President Barack Obama praised Wednesday the initiatives made worldwide to enhance the protection of religious minorities, giving as an instance the conference on religious minorities’ rights in Muslim countries that just concluded its proceedings in Marrakech the same day. In remarks he made at Righteous among Nations Award Ceremony held in Washington on the […]
