The truce with the ELN, the Spanish acronym for National Liberation Army, comes into effect on Thursday and will last for 180 days, according to media reports. The development follows nearly 10 months of negotiations and is part of the “total peace” policy of President Gustavo Petro, who took office last August. More international observers…
Chennai: After two consecutive failures to reach the moon, India’s third space mission, Chandrayaan-3, was launched once and for all. India’s third moon mission Chandrayaan-3 was launched from the Shaar Range at Satish Dhawan Space Center Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh at 2.35 pm on Friday. After the success of the ISRO mission, India will join…
Security Council members reiterated strong support for the full withdrawal of the decade-old UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), and the transfer of security responsibilities to the country’s transitional Government, which has been in power since a coup in 2021. Commending the peacekeeping operation and its staff, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for the…
UN Special Representative Roza Otunbayeva was briefing the Security Council on the dire situation facing the country and the international aid effort, with UN women workers among those now prevented by Taliban edicts from working. “We will not put our national staff in danger and therefore we are asking them not to report to the office”…
“Now is not the time to take our eyes off the ball in South Sudan,” said Nicholas Haysom, who also heads the UN mission in the country (UNMISS). “What we can learn from Sudan is how quickly hard-won peace gains can unravel.” On the political front, the Sudan crisis is reducing “much-needed bandwidth” to focus on…
“This is obviously an important time for the mission, coinciding with discussions on the renewal of its mandate, and also for Mali, which continues to face complex security and other forms of challenges,” Special Representative El-Ghassim Wane told ambassadors. The long-awaited vote on Sunday marks the first phase towards presidential elections next year following a…
Walker Perthes, file photo Sudan has described the head of the United Nations mission, Walker Perthes, as an undesirable figure. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sudan has informed the Secretary General of the United Nations about declaring Walker Perthes as persona non grata. The head of the Sudanese military council, Abdul Fateh al-Barhan, has…
The UAE spacecraft will be sent to the asteroid belt. Photo: Fortune Magazine United Arab Emirates: After the success of the Mars mission, the United Arab Emirates has now decided to conquer the outermost part of the solar system. Therefore, in the year 2028, a modern spacecraft will be sent to the asteroid belt. The…
SpaceX’s historic space mission has taken off with 4 astronauts, including a male and female Saudi astronaut, to the International Space Station. According to Arab media, these 4 astronauts include 2 women and 2 men. Reana Barnawi, a breast cancer researcher from Saudi Arabia, has embarked on a space mission with her Saudi partner, Ali…
File photo SpaceX’s private mission will depart for the International Space Station today. According to the American media, 4 people including a Saudi woman are included in the private space mission. Stem cell researcher Rayana Barnawi will be the first Saudi woman to travel in space US media say the private space mission will spend…
