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UN holds ministerial meeting on implementation of Mali Peace Agreement

A ministerial meeting on Mali took place Friday in New York to speed up the implementation of the Peace and Reconciliation Agreement in Mali, resulting from Algiers process. This high-level meeting, in which partook Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ramtane Lamamra, was co-chaired by Algeria, …

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Somalia stages anti-Kenya protest in maritime border row

Hundreds of Somalis took to the streets of Mogadishu on Wednesday in protest at Kenya’s territorial claim to a disputed portion of potentially lucrative Indian Ocean waters. A long-running dispute between the two Horn of Africa neighbours went before the UN’s top court in The Hague this week, which is …

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UN rights chief: DRC faces 'large-scale crisis'

The United Nations human rights chief is warning that a “large-scale crisis could be just around the corner” in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where dozens of people have been killed this week in protests against a delayed presidential election.

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