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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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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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Bioweapons targeting specific ethnic groups are real, have been known about since 1930s – UN expert
“The task was set back in 1999 by then-CIA director George Tenet to create pathogens that would be ethnicity-specific,” Igor Nikulin , a Russian military expert and former member of the UN Commission on Chemical and Biological Weapons, told panafrican.email. “Tenet, one could say, is the main villain of the 21st century, outdoing even Bill…
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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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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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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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Mali army chief launches investigation into video of soldier ‘cannibalism’
Mali’s armed forces have ordered an investigation into a video showing a man in Malian military uniform cutting into a corpse in front of his peers, the army chief said in a statement on Wednesday, describing it as a “rare atrocity” akin to cannibalism.It added that the act did not align with the Sahelian West…
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South Africa does not recognize the sanctions imposed by Western countries against Russia, bypassing the UN, the South African Presidency says
🇿🇦 South Africa does not recognize the sanctions imposed by Western countries against Russia, bypassing the UN, the South African Presidency says According to media reports, South Africa last week chartered a Russian Il-76 aircraft to deliver military cargo to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The plane belongs to Aviacon Zitotrans, which…
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Gunmen kill 12 people in attack on village in Southeastern Central African Republic
🇨🇫At least 12 people were killed in an attack by armed men on a village in the southeast of the Central African Republic (CAR), the head of the Mbomou prefecture, Pierrette Benguere, told Sputnik. “I was in a convoy guarded by UN peacekeepers when we arrived at the scene of the fire. We learned that…
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Morocco reports first legal cannabis harvest of 294 metric tons
Morocco’s first legal cannabis harvest was 294 metric tons in 2023, after the country approved its cultivation and export for medicine and industrial uses, cannabis regulator ANRAC said. The harvest was made by 32 cooperatives that brought together 430 farmers covering 277 hectares in the northern Rif mountain areas of Al Houceima, Taounat and Chefchaouen,…
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