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A pressing need for a coherent United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approach to Libya
African Press Organization
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September 2, 2019
Download logo Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion, Carmelo Abela, spoke – at an informal meeting of EU Foreign Ministers (Gymnich) in Helsinki – on the pressing need for a coherent United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approach on...
Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) Joint News Release: FAO & WFP mark World Food Day In Libya
African Press Organization
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October 16, 2019
Download logo The Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are marking World Food Day with initiatives to strengthen and support Libya’s efforts to realise the Sustainable Development Goal of...
U.S. Travel Restriction on Sierra Leone – Separating Facts from Fictions
EIN Presswire
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June 7, 2025
Travel Restrictions on Sierra Leone: What Facts are Saying FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE, June 8, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In keeping with his July 2024 campaign promise to restore the travel ban and refugee admission into the United States upon...
Towards the Sustainable Reintegration of Returned Migrants: Cash for Work activities in Guinea Bissau
African Press Organization
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October 8, 2019
Soil erosion is but one of many environmental threats that dramatically impact the rural economy in Guinea-Bissau. It’s part of a range of push factors behind internal and external migration in the impoverished West African nation. Guinea-Bissau...
External Actors Content to ‘Fight to the Last Libyan’ in Settling Scores, Top Official Tells Security Council, amid Concern over Migrants, Refugees
African Press Organization
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July 30, 2019
Download logo Several recent tragedies involving migrants and refugees in Libya have spotlighted the extreme vulnerability of those groups, the senior United Nations official in that country told the Security Council today, as he described a...
Commander, Ambassador Meet with Libyan PM
African Press Organization
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August 28, 2019
Download logo The new commander of U.S. Africa Command, Gen. Stephen Townsend, traveled to Tunis, Tunisia on Aug. 26 for meetings focused on U.S.-Tunisian bilateral security and on U.S. security interests in neighboring Libya. With respect to...
Statement by the governments of France, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America on Libya
African Press Organization
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August 12, 2019
Download logo The governments of France, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States of America welcome the announcement of a truce in Libya on the occasion of Eid el-Adha in response to the Special Representative of...
The Foreign Ministry contributes to financing the assisted voluntary return of migrants from Libya, Niger, Burkina Faso and Chad
African Press Organization
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August 1, 2019
Download logo Italy has made a 11-million-euro contribution from the Africa Fund to support the project titled “Protection and sustainable solutions for migrants and refugees along the Central Mediterranean route”, comanaged by the European Union,...
60 young debaters from the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the Balkans met in Malta to debate a sustainable 2030 future
African Press Organization
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July 9, 2019
“It is our duty to build the next generation of Euro-Mediterranean dialogue leaders to transform debate into action for a sustainable future. This was stated by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion Carmelo Abela in his address at...
Protracted conflicts and adverse weather conditions exacerbate food needs
African Press Organization
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July 4, 2019
Ongoing conflicts and dry weather conditions remain the primary causes of high levels of severe food insecurity, hampering food availability and access for millions of people, according to the Crop Prospects and Food Situation report issued today....
Climate, Environment, and Conservation: Daily Press Briefing - June 14, 2016
U.S. Department of State
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June 14, 2016
2:12 p.m. EDT MR KIRBY: Hello, everybody. QUESTION: Hello. MR KIRBY: Why are you smiling, Samir? QUESTION: It’s nice to see you back. MR KIRBY: It’s been a long time. QUESTION: Did you miss us? (Laughter.) MR KIRBY: Oh, you have no idea. What’s...
Alone in Libya : Children Returning to Burkina Faso Assisted by IOM
African Press Organization
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June 18, 2019
Download logo Since the 2017 launch of the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration, IOM Burkina Faso has assisted with the voluntary return of 60 migrant children under 18 years of age from among 1,681 Burkinabe returnees,...
Qatar Urges UN Security Council to Take Decisive Action to Deter Military Escalation in Western Libya
African Press Organization
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April 30, 2019
Download logo The State of Qatar has urged the UN Security Council to take decisive action to deter those responsible for the military escalation in western Libya and warned against further slide into chaos and insecurity in western Libya. This...
United Nations in Libya Marks the “International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action” in Partnership with Canada and the United Kingdom
African Press Organization
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April 8, 2019
Download logo The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) co-organized a reception on 28 March in partnership with the Canadian and British Embassies to Libya to celebrate the “International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine...
Climate, Environment, and Conservation: Remarks on COP21 and Action Beyond Paris
U.S. Department of State
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December 9, 2015
SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you, Todd, extraordinarily for those more than generous words. I really, really appreciate them. I might have loved it if you found a less menacing notion than a ballistic missile. (Laughter.) But I appreciate it. At least...
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) calls for policies and investments targeting sustainable water use in the Middle East and North Africa
African Press Organization
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January 23, 2019
Download logo It is imperative to scale up policies and investments in the Middle East and North Africa to make water use in agriculture more sustainable and efficient and to ensure that all the people in the region have access to healthy diets,...
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) organizes a training workshop for the Libyan ministry of Agriculture
African Press Organization
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January 3, 2019
Download logo As part of the capacity building agreement between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of Libya, FAO representation to Libya is delivering a training workshop to cadres from the Libyan...
International Organization for Migration (IOM) returns 1000th Ghanaian from Libya, Niger since 2017
African Press Organization
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February 1, 2019
Download logo The International Organization for Migration (IOM) received a mandate in December 2016 to help rescue vulnerable migrants from Ghana stranded en route to Europe. The plan was to bring 650 men and women home within three years. This...
Renewal of U.S.-Libya Science and Technology Agreement Increases Opportunities for Youth and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Educators
African Press Organization
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November 16, 2018
On November 15, the U.S. State Department hosted a signing ceremony in the Treaty Room in recognition of the ten-year renewal of the U.S.-Libya Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement. Present to sign the Agreement were Libyan Ambassador Wafa...
Deputy Minister Andries Nel: National General Meeting of the Black Lawyers Association
South African Government
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May 26, 2025
Good morning, President, leadership and members of BLA, panellists, guests, comrades and friends. I stand on the protocol established by the programme director. The Secretary General stated that he did not see me being accompanied by any...