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This week, until 25 November, diplomats from some 100 States will meet in Geneva for the Fourth Review Conference of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW). High on the agenda is a new...
Water is a life-sustaining element. The access thereto is internationally recognised as a basic human need and a fundamental right. Beyond that, the concept of water is deeply embedded in cultural...
The crumbling of North African (NA) regimes holds serious challenges for international law on the African continent. Traditional international law refrained from prescribing to states which forms...
The Ministers responsible for Agriculture and representatives of Countries present at the African Ministerial Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture –...
Scores of Libyan army vehicles have crossed the desert frontier into Niger in what may be a dramatic, secretly negotiated bid by Muammar Gaddafi to seek refuge in a friendly African state, military...
Formerly Upper Volta, Burkina Faso achieved independence from France in August 1960 and spent many of its post-independence years under military rule. Repeated military coups during the 1970s and...
On 29 August, the international community observed the second International Day against Nuclear Tests. The UN General Assembly created the event in December 2009 through the unanimous adoption of...
Jobs are not being created fast enough to absorb the rising labour force, Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel says. Taking questions in the National Assembly, he says this is despite two...