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Morocco has ranked 4th globally on Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) which looks at four categories namely GHG Emissions, Renewable Energy, Energy Use and Climate Policy, knowing that the first three overall spots remained empty because no country performed well enough in all index categories to achieve an overall very high rating. The index, established […]
Côte d’Ivoire Tuesday informed the Unite Nations about its decision to gradually withdraw its forces taking part in the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), amid ongoing feud between Abidjan and Bamako. The Ivorian mission to New York, in a correspondence to Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, said the West […]
Warning the continent has 600-million people in energy poverty, the right of African countries to use their natural gas reserves should be reflected in any deal at the COP27 climate talks, African Development Bank (AfDB) President Akinwumi Adesina said, even as some nations push to see use of the fuel curtailed. Agreeing to a deal […]
Gunmen have mowed down the traditional ruler of Obudi Agwa in Nigeria’s Imo state, in an incident authorities blame on Biafran separatists. The state police public relations officer, Mike Abattam, confirmed the attack to local media. Unidentified gunmen reportedly visited Monday the palace in Oguta under the guise of reporting an emergency situation before opening […]
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for the African Union (AU) to be made a permanent member of the G20, a group of 20 countries with leading economies which come together to discuss policy on health, trade and other issues. Speaking during the Working Session on Food and Energy Security at the G20 Leaders’ […]
With fighting between the Congolese army and M23 rebels moving closer to the key city of Goma, thousands of people have been displaced, plunging this volatile eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) into a looming humanitarian crisis. Clashes picked up again in the country’s North Kivu province last week, ending about […]
A convoy carrying medical supplies arrived Tuesday (15 November) in the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the first shipment of international aid to reach the region following a cease-fire and a peace deal agreed by the country’s federal government and Tigrayan forces earlier this month. “The first ICRC medical supplies have just arrived in Mekele […]
U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, has hailed Morocco’s religious tolerance and the country’s leadership in combating antisemitism. Speaking at a meeting hosted on Monday by the U.S. Consulate General in Casablanca, Mrs. Lipstadt said the number of synagogues, Jewish cemeteries and institutions in Morocco is very impressive, attesting to […]
Pro-Algeria Oklahoma senator Jim Inhofe has retired after a long career in which he attempted multiple times, but in vain, to undermine the close relations between Morocco and the US. The longtime top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee was replaced by Markwayne Mullin. The conservative Inhofe was an ardent defender of the authoritarian […]
Algeria was dealt a slap in the face after the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands have unanimously rejected a draft resolution submitted by Algiers, seeking to revise the Ramsar Criteria, and downgrade sites on the Ramsar List. During the 14th Conference of the Contracting Parties to the RAMSAR Convention on Wetlands (COP14), […]