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Nick Birnback, a spokesman for United Nations peacekeeping, paid tribute to Morocco’s commitment to peace keeping saying that the country is the 14th largest contributor with 1,610 military, police and civilian personnel deployed in UN Peace keeping operations. “We are grateful to Morocco for its continued contribution to the maintenance of the United Nations peace […]
The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres underscored that the Libyan Political Agreement signed under the aegis of the UN in Skhirat, Morocco, in December 2015, remains the transitional framework for peace and reconciliation in the North African country. The UN chief who was participating in a high-level event on Libya organized Wednesday on the […]
A former Libyan official has laid into the United Nations for sabotaging efforts by Libyans to get together and for imposing east-based army commander Khalifa Haftar. “The international community, especially the United Nations, is not serious about looking for a political solution in Libya,” said Mohamed Hussein Omar in an interview with Quds Press. Omar […]
With Gaza entering its fourth month of a serious energy crisis, the United Nations on Thursday released a further $2.5 million from a pooled humanitarian fund to cover urgent needs in the Palestinian enclave, a UN press release said. The disbursement from the Humanitarian Fund for the occupied Palestinian Territory will bolster the UN’s emergency […]
Morocco’s pivot to Africa is the fruit of a decades-long strategy based on a win-win approach and the values of co-development and solidarity, said King Mohammed VI In a speech on the occasion of the 64th anniversary of the Revolution of the King and People, the King highlighted the salient features of Morocco’s African policy […]
Egyptian officials have pointed fingers at Qatar for supporting terrorism during a U.N. session on Tuesday, held at the initiative of Egypt and chaired by Egypt’s Permanent Representative Amr Aboul Atta. During the session, a list enumerating Qatar’s violations of the UN arms embargo on Libya was circulated with allegations that Doha is a key […]
The US has expressed reservations over the French move to garner support at the UN Security council for the adoption of a resolution mandating a force by West African states to combat terrorism and trafficking in the Sahel. The US voiced its concerns regarding the UN financial backing for the Sahel force after France has […]
The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guteres, expressed deep concern over the shortage of food supplies sent to the population held in the Polisario-run camps in southwestern Algeria. “The Secretary-General is deeply concerned over the plight of tens of thousands of Sahrawi refugees in Algeria, who will have their food rations cut due to lack of […]
As issues relating to Russian influence in the EU, US and the Middle East are in the limelight, Russia continues to quietly make inroads in North Africa where it has been gaining a foothold in Libya and boosting its military exports to Algeria and Egypt while strengthening economic ties with Morocco and Tunisia, said the […]
The self-proclaimed SADR entity keeps receiving heavy blows from its former supporters in Africa. The latest of such blows to SADR was dealt by Zambia, which has officially withdrawn recognition of the Algerian-based separatist entity. The announcement was made by Zambia’s Foreign Minister Harry Kalaba, who voiced his country’s support for the UN process to […]