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The UN chief has issued yet another appeal for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where escalating violence between Rwanda-backed rebels and government forces has left nearly 3,000 people dead, displacing hundreds of thousands more. The fighting, particularly around the eastern city of Goma, has intensified in recent weeks, with rebels from the […]
A new scandal has shaken the increasingly divided South Africa’s ruling party, the ANC with the issuing of an arrest warrant against the party’s Secretary General Ace Magashule. The figure of the ruling party is accused of corruption in a public contract case from his time as governor of Free State province. Rumors of […]
Representatives of several countries have expressed at the United Nations their full support to the sustained efforts made by the UN for the resolution of the Sahara issue, commending Morocco’s “realistic and credible” plan for the settlement of this regional conflict. Addressing the UN fourth committee currently convening in NY, the delegate of Qatar […]
Tunisian political opposition Thursday laid into President Caid Essebsi and his Premier Essid for lying to the people of Tunisia adding that new cabinet appointed this week is a gift to the Islamist party, Ennahdha. For lawmaker Mongi Rahoui, member of the Popular Front, President Caid Essebsi and the ruling party failed to keep its […]
The Palestinian President’s Wednesday speech at the UN revived thousands of Palestinians’ hope to establish a Palestinian state especially that the day marked the hoisting of their flag for the first time at the UN. “Palestine, which is an observer state in the United Nations, deserves full recognition and full membership,” Abbas said. “In this […]