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The UNESCO has raised the alarm over the surge of attacks on media workers covering protests, noting that clampdowns on the media have increased sharply in 2020. In its new report, Safety of Journalists Covering Protests – Preserving Freedom of the Press during Times of Civil Unrest, the UNESCO said that between January and June […]
Permanent Representative of Morocco to the UN, Omar Hilale, and the Ambassador of Switzerland, Pascale Baeriswyl, have submitted to the UN General Assembly’s President Tijjani Muhammad-Bande the report on their co-facilitation of the process of strengthening the Human Rights Treaty Bodies. In the report covering letter, the two diplomats stressed that they echoed all the […]
Senegal has arrested at Blaise Diagne international airport a German national wanted by his country and the Interpol for terrorism. Auerbacher Marius Falk, 30, was arrested at the airport on Sunday, September 13, as he was about to enter Senegal illegally, news portal Le360.ma reports. The German citizen, who is the subject of an international […]
The Ivorian Constitutional Council validated on Monday four candidacies, including that of outgoing President Alassane Ouattara for a controversial third term, and rejected those of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo and ex-rebel leader and Prime Minister Guillaume Soro for the October 31 presidential election. The Constitutional Council validated only four of the 44 presidential candidatures. In addition […]
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney gave the cold shoulder to a Polisario lobbyist and reiterated Ireland’s position in favor of a political solution to the Sahara regional conflict under the umbrella of the UN. As Ireland prepares to open an embassy in Rabat, Coveney told MPS at the question time that his country “supports the […]
Moroccan diplomacy enjoys the trust of the Libyan rivals for its neutrality and non-interference in domestic Libyan issues. The success of the Bouznika talks last week, which paved the way for an end of the institutional divisions in the country, is a landmark achievement of the Moroccan mediation. The Moroccan-hosted talks received international acclaim from […]
The call made by Amnesty International to put pressure on Moroccan authorities to free journalist Omar Radi is an offense to Morocco’s independent judiciary, said the Higher Judicial Council in a statement. The campaign launched by Amnesty International has been decried by independent rights activists who also castigated the London-based NGO for flouting the rights […]
As the UN Secretary General braces to submit his new report on the Sahara to the Security Council in October with no words on the new UN envoy for the Sahara, the Algerian rulers and the Polisario leaders are becoming more hysterical and agitated. They unleash their frustration and anger at the United Nations and […]
Morocco’s efforts to facilitate inter-Libyan dialogue that were crowned by the meeting convened in Bouznika September 6-10 and that gathered delegations from the Tripoli-based Libyan High Council of State and the Tobruk-based Libyan House of Representatives were commended by the international community. The negotiations aimed to help solve the Libyan crisis have actually reached a […]
The parallel Libyan government opposed to the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) has stepped down amid protests over deteriorating living conditions. Prime Minister of the administration, Abdullah Al-Thani, reportedly turned in Sunday his resignation to the Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) Aguila Saleh, during an urgent meeting in which they discussed the […]