Month: January 2024

As the world’s newest nation, South Sudan, fast approaches its first post-independence elections, safety and security of all citizens remains a priority. The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), as part of its mandate, therefore, runs regular capacity building initiatives with the country’s police personnel to ensure they are fully prepared to protect and serve all communities. Recently in Eastern Equatoria, the UN Peacekeeping mission facilitated sessions for police […]

Just at the end of the 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence, a high-impact film event, hosted by the EU Delegation to Sierra Leone in partnership with the film’s impact producers, Think-Film Impact Production, which features an exclusive extract from upcoming documentary film “Bayo Bayo Baby” is putting a spotlight on the situation of women and girls in Sierra Leone. The film also highlights the urgent need to provide […]

Speaker of the House of Representatives (lower house), Rachid Talbi El Alami, represented His Majesty King Mohammed VI at the inauguration ceremony of Guatemala's new president, Bernardo Arévalo, which took place on Sunday in Guatemala-City. Arévalo's official investiture ceremony took place at the Miguel Angel Asturias national Theater, in the presence of numerous heads of State and government, as well as representatives of legislative institutions. At the ceremony, the speaker […]

Five courageous human rights defenders from around the world have shared their hard-hitting stories on Amnesty International’s new podcast: ‘On the Side of Humanity. How human rights defenders fight for our present and future’. The three-part series was released to mark the 25th anniversary of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. The documentary explores how the human rights movement has evolved since the adoption of the watershed declaration. In the podcast, […]

Since December 15th, the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and paramilitary group, Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has taken a new turn. Jazirah, one of the 18 States of Sudan (one of the main bread baskets in the country) which was before controlled by the SAF, has been taken over by the RSF. This includes but is not limited to Wad Madani the third largest city in the country […]

In Mali, mango production basins were cut off from the rest of the country during the rainy season; Financed by the World Bank through the International Development Association (IDA), the project has helped build bridges, culverts, and inverts, and opened the way for the transportation of mangoes to the market and job creation; Visits to health centers have quadrupled in the project area. Located deep in the interior of the Bougouni region […]

On January 14, 2024 the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Arab Republic of Egypt, Sergei Terentiev, met with the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt for European Affairs, Khaled Emara. The parties discussed issues on the bilateral agenda, including cooperation in the spheres of industrial cooperation, agriculture and food security, interaction in scientific, technical and humanitarian areas. The participants […]

HE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi met on Monday with HE Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Government of Sierra Leone Francess Piagie Alghali. During the meeting, they discussed bilateral cooperation relations. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The State of Qatar.