The United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) will open shortly an Office in Morocco, showing the UN agency’s strong determination to speed up and enhance further its cooperation with the North African country in sustainable urban development. UN-Habitat has been cooperating with Morocco since 1995 on national and local programs in the field of sustainable […]
Unidentified armed men killed Sunday nine Chinese and wounded two others in the mining town of Bambari, in civil-war hit Central African Republic (CAR). Abel Matchipata, mayor of the town located in the center of the country, told local media that the victims were working in a mining field, for Gold Coast Group. He added […]
Islamist groupings across North Africa – who had long faced severe repression from the recently deposed dictators and were commonly denounced by the West as security threats – now lead three of the four new democratically elected governments in the region. But the Islamist parties that have suddenly found themselves in power across North Africa […]
