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Category: United Nations

General Debate of the 79th Sessionof the UN General Assembly

Featured African speakers: South African President Cyril RamaphosaSierra Leonean President Julius Maada BioAngolan President João Manuel Gonçalves LourençoMauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El GhazouaniNigerian Vice President Kashim ShettimaMoroccan Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch
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September 25, 2024
Liberian Govt Seeks Weah’s Help In Bid For UN Seat

Liberian Foreign Minister Sara Beysolow has requested the assistance of former president George M. Weah in the government’s bid to secure a non-permanent member seat at the UN Security Council. In a formal communication, the minister cited the former president’s “global presence as a peace ambassador,” and the foundation laid by his administration on the…
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September 19, 2024
Tanzanian President Samia scolds US, Western nations over ‘interference in Tanzania’s domestic affairs’

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has criticised several Western nations, including the US, for their remarks about the country’s handling of internal affairs such as murders and kidnappings. “We’re not here to be told how to run our country,” Samia stated on Tuesday during an event in the Moshi area of the north eastern Kilimanjaro…
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September 19, 2024
Egypt welcomes UN appointment of special envoy on water

Egypt welcomed Saturday the UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ recent decision to appoint Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi as his special envoy on water, who will take up her role starting next November. In a statement, the Egyptian foreign ministry affirmed that this appointment marks a significant victory for Egypt, which, along with Germany, spearheaded efforts…
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September 15, 2024
Algeria’s representative to the UN has condemned the Malian Air Force strikes on Ti-n-Zaouâtene

In his speech, he called for the Malian authorities to be condemned for killing 20 civilians in one of the latest strikes on Ti-n-Zaouâtene, near the Algerian border. This is the first response by any state to Azawad in the past year since the conflict began escalating. There is logic for the Algerian authorities in…
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August 30, 2024
The UN mission in Libya, UNSMIL, has expressed concern “over reports of the mobilisation of forces in Tripoli

Since the Libyan Central Bank, based in Tripoli, is the only internationally recognized bank that benefits from oil exports, the parallel government in the east of the country depends on cooperation to export oil from the rich basins of the Gulf of Sirtre. Due to the current political tensions between Tripoli and Benghazi, in the…
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August 24, 2024
UN: Floods in Central and West Africa affect over 700,000 people

The floods currently affecting Central and West Africa have already impacted more than 700,000 people, according to a report from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). This alarming situation is the result of torrential rains that have hit the region just two months into the rainy season. “The Office for…
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August 15, 2024
Libya’s $70 bln Wealth Fund Sees Thaw in UN Asset Freeze by Year-end

The Libyan Investment Authority is expecting UN sign-off by the end of the year to actively manage its $70 billion in assets for the first time in more than a decade, its chief executive told Reuters. The LIA, set up under Muammar Gaddafi in 2006 to manage the country’s oil wealth, has been under a…
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August 3, 2024