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A moving tribute was paid this Friday at a ceremony in Geneva to two late human rights defenders who have reverberated the voice of the Kingdom of Morocco in Geneva and Banjul and defended its causes. Late Martin Maluza, president of the NGO “CIRAC” (International Committee for the Respect and Application of the African Charter […]
In the framework of the 50th session of the Human Rights Council, a meeting and debate was held at the Hotel Montrbrillant-Cornavin, Geneva, on 14 June 2022, on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Child in Conflict Zones: Situation of Child Soldiers. This meeting was jointly organized at the initiative of Rencontre […]
A convention on the creation of the African Institute for Lifelong Learning, at the proposal of King Mohammed VI, was signed on Wednesday, on the sidelines of the UNESCO’s 7th International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VII), held in Marrakech under the theme “Adult learning and education for sustainable development – A transformative agenda.” The […]
Morocco and Saudi Arabia have called for more efforts to support stability, promote sustainable development and fight extremism, terrorism and separatist movements in the Sahel region. This came in the minutes of the 13th session of the Morocco-Saudi Arabia Joint Commission convened in Rabat this week under the co-chairmanship of the two countries’ Foreign Ministers […]
King Mohammed VI has proposed the setting up of an African Institute for Lifelong Learning to strengthen South-South coordination and cooperation in the field of adult learning and lifelong education. The suggestion was made in the message he addressed to the UNESCO’s Seventh International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VII), held in Marrakech under the […]
Chad’s President Mahamat Idriss Déby has vowed to curtail the gold smuggling business depriving his country weekly of around $91 million in the advantage of Libya. The head of the Chadian Transitional Military Council who took over from his father General Idriss Deby killed in April last year, told State radio that the shady business […]
Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, said, Monday in New York, that Algeria kidnaps and tortures the sequestered populations of the Tindouf camps, which it is supposed to protect. “The United Nations Human Rights Committee has just published today a statement on a Sahrawi whom you abducted, kidnapped and tortured. He has […]
Two members of the Moroccan blue helmets of the MINUSCA mission died in the Central African Republic, the UN mission announced on Twitter, without disclosing their identity. The two Moroccan blue helmets, who were part of the peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, died on June 12 in Bangassou in the east of the […]
The Rabat Appeal for the preservation of the Judeo-African heritage was signed on Monday within the framework of the second edition of the Jewish Africa Conference, held this June 13 to 15 under the theme “Past, Present and Future”. The main objective of this appeal is to preserve the Jewish-African heritage, taking as example Morocco, […]
The high-level meeting of the Committee of Fifteen Ministers of Finance of the African Union (F15) opened Monday in Rabat on the theme “Beyond COVID-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Enhancing the Resilience of African Economies and Financial Sustainability of the African Union”. The participants in this event, co-organized by the ministry of Economy and Finance […]