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Morocco’s firm and permanent attachment, under the far-sighted leadership of King Mohammed VI, to the values of coexistence and to the fight against hate speech and intolerance was highlighted in New York by the Kingdom’s permanent representative to the UN, Omar Hilale. Hilale was speaking Tuesday in New York at a high-level event co-organized by […]
Tunisia has been mistreating migrants subjecting them to refoulement, as authorities continue to round up and throw migrants in Libya where they risk torture, Reuters reported citing an unpublished UN document. Tunisian authorities have been expelling African migrants to Libya, “where they have faced forced labor, extortion, torture and killing”, Reuters said citing a confidential […]
A new record 120 million people have been forcibly displaced worldwide due to conflict, violence, and persecution, according to a recent United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) report. The overall number of refugees reached a whopping 117.3 million people as of the end of 2023, representing a significant increase from the previous year. This figure has […]
The European Union’s migration deals with Tunisia and Mauritania have proved to be controversial, with the former strongly criticized for fundamental rights violations of migrants stranded in the north African country, while the latter has not discouraged thousands of Africans from increasingly going through Mauritania to reach European shores. In July 2023, the EU signed […]
The high-level international conference on the urgent humanitarian response for Gaza kicked off on Tuesday in Jordan, in the Dead Sea region, with the participation of Morocco. King Mohammed VI is represented at this Conference, which is being held at the joint initiative of Jordan, Egypt and the United Nations, by Head of Government, Aziz […]
The upper and lower houses of the Moroccan parliament have both approved a bill that introduces alternative sentences with the aim of reducing overpopulation in Morocco’s prisons. The bill was advocated by the government as a solution to overcrowded Moroccan prisons. The prison population in Morocco surpassed 158% of capacity across the country’s 76 prisons, […]
Conflicts in Sudan and across the Sahel region have compromised protection for migrants who continue to face “unimaginable horrors” on major migration routes to Europe, according to new report from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). Although the location of the major migration routes is well known, no immediate assistance, shelter or information about the dangers […]
Three African countries — Burkina Faso, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — top a list of the world’s most neglected crises for the second year in a row, according to a new report released by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). The NRC’s annual report on the world’s most neglected displacement crises says […]
“If we don’t act now,” the humanitarian crisis that is unfolding in the Sahel will “become a problem for the world,” a senior UNHCR official has warned, echoing a senior UNICEF official that has condemned a “distressing” 70% rise in grave violence against children in several strife-torn countries in the region plagued by jihadists and […]
Tunisia has added the final nail in Algeria’s attempt to create a Maghreb union that excludes and isolates Morocco. The Algerian president has spoken about a union in the making with Tunisia and Libya due to the inaction of the Maghreb union that also includes Mauritania and Morocco. Analysts have said that Tebboune was seeking […]