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Low-cost airline Air Arabia Maroc has launched Thursday its first direct flight between Madrid and the Northeastern city of Nador. Air Arabia offers two weekly flights between Madrid and Nador, which are scheduled on Thursday and Sunday. The Madrid-Nador flight adds up to another connection of the company, linking Madrid to Tangier. From Barcelona, Air […]
UN Special Advisor on Libya, Stephanie Williams, has confirmed that Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) and President of the High Council of State (HCS) had accepted her invitation to meet at UN Office in Geneva on June 28-29 to discuss constitutional framework for Libya elections. “I am pleased to confirm that Speaker of […]
The Mauritanian NGO “Réseau Unité pour le Développement de Mauritanie” has denounced in a complaint to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva the alarming situation prevailing in the polisario-controlled Tindouf camps in Algeria. In the complaint submitted to the HRC, NGO chairman Mohamed Vall Barka decried the intimidation and repression suffered by human rights […]
Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) have commended King Mohammed VI for the determined actions he took to improve women’s rights. The experts, who were taking part in Geneva in an event organized by civil society on the sidelines of the 50th session of the UN Human Rights Council […]
Marrakech is hosting a two-day high-level meeting of the heads of counterterrorism and security agencies of North African and Sahel countries. The meeting, held under the auspices of the United Nations Office of Counterterrorism, provides participants with a platform to debate strategies and approaches to strengthen regional cooperation on counter-terrorism issues, terrorist threat assessment, and […]
The Moroccan Government decided this Thursday at the cabinet’s weekly meeting to extend the state of health emergency until July 31, 2022, to continue to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of measures taken by public authorities to stem the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Government Council examined and adopted, this June 23, a draft […]
The World Bank has approved a $100 million additional financing for the Casablanca Municipal Support Program. The amount adds to the initial program of $200 million originally approved in 2017. The program supports the city’s financial and institutional strengthening under the Greater Casablanca Development Plan (Plan de Développement du Grand Casablanca, PDGC) with the aim […]
A group of members of the High Council of State (HCS) has called on Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, one of Libya’s two rival Prime Ministers, to hand over power peacefully to his foe Fathi Bashagha, designated by the House of Representatives (HoR), the parliament of the oil-rich African country. The group issued a statement calling on […]
As the recruitment and exploitation of children in crises and political conflicts is a war crime under international humanitarian law. As the recruitment and exploitation of children in conflicts is a violation of the essence of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child and its annexed protocols and it requires no impunity. As […]
In a context of increasing repression of peaceful demonstrations by the Algerian security forces, hundreds of people have been arbitrarily arrested since the beginning of the peaceful movement Al hirak, including many human rights defenders who try to expose corruption and frauds in Algeria. This anti-corruption activism exposes human rights defenders to years of prison […]