Alima from Burkina Faso wants to be a police officer, Awa from Mali dreams of being a nurse, and 11-year-old María Gabriela from Ecuador hopes to go to veterinary school. Although their names are not real – to protect them – their dreams are. Right now, 222 million young dreamers like Alima, Awa and María…
“What is urgently needed is the political will to break the protracted political stalemate and achieve progress on multiple fronts,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said at the latest meeting of the High-level Committee on Libya, taking place in Addis Ababa. Progress is sorely needed towards holding elections and advancing gains in security, national reconciliation and…
Sabbat Muzamil, a young leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N (N) living in Perifait, a suburb of the French capital, and others collected donations and essential items for the earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria under their help. Donations and collected essential items were sent to Turkey and Syria by Pakistani Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmed,…
Almost 400 women leaders from 15 African countries joined the UN-backed three-day conference, which opened on Monday, including former and current presidents. The goal is to advance progress, tackle pressing concerns and find sustainable solutions to issues affecting women and girls in South Sudan and across Africa. The conference’s theme is GuwaTaMara, meaning the strength…
Border entry point to enter Egypt from Palestine, file photo Egypt has invited Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders to Cairo to ease tensions with Israel. Secretary General of the Palestinian Organization of Islamic Jihad Ziad al-Nakhlah met with the head of Egypt’s intelligence agency in Cairo. The leader of Islamic Jihad discussed the latest…
“Spanish authorities must conduct a full, fair, and effective investigation into these allegations, publish the findings and stop any unlawful interference into the fundamental rights of the Catalan minority activists in Spain,” they said in a statement. Top leaders arrested Following the October 2017 independence referendum, Spain arrested leaders of the Catalonian independence movement on charges…
The first ministerial meeting of the Global Alliance to end AIDS in children marked a step up in action to ensure all boys and girls with HIV can access life-saving treatment, and that HIV-positive mothers can have babies free from the virus. Ministers and representatives laid out plans which include providing testing to more pregnant…
CIA director Bill Burns arrived in Tel Aviv yesterday, he met with Prime Minister Netanyahu and Mossad chief David Barnia. According to foreign media, the CIA chief will also meet Palestinian leaders. His visit to Israel was originally scheduled but was delayed due to ongoing tensions between Israel and the Palestinians in the West Bank…
