As 18 million people in Africa's Sahel region teeter on the edge of severe hunger over the next three months, the UN released on Friday an additional $30 million from its emergency humanitarian fund, to boost the humanitarian response across four (...)
Mali's decision on 15 May to withdraw from the G5-Sahel group and its Joint Force is "unfortunate" and "regrettable", a senior United Nations official told the Security Council on Wednesday, as she urged countries in the region to redouble efforts (...)
Leaders and heads of state from all around the world continue arriving in Abu Dhabi for the second day on Sunday to pay their respects following the death of Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed and on the occasion of the election of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed (...)
Minister of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance Sheikh Dr. Abdullatif Bin Abdulziz Al Al-Sheikh met here Monday with President of the African Scholars Forum and President of the Islamic Cultural Association in Mauritania and West Africa Sheikh (...)
Minister of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance Sheikh Dr. Abdullatif bin Abdulziz Al Al-Sheikh met here today with President of the African Scholars Forum and President of the Islamic Cultural Association in Mauritania and West Africa Sheikh Mohamed (...)
More than 3,000 people died or went missing while attempting to cross the Mediterranean and the Atlantic last year, hoping to reach Europe, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday, appealing for $163.5 million to assist and protect thousands of (...)
UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) spokesperson Shabia Mantoo said on Friday that more than 3,000 people died or went missing while attempting to cross the Central and Western Mediterranean and Atlantic to Europe last year.
This is according to a new report (...)
In a meeting held at the headquarters of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy (IIFA) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, UNHCR and IIFA agreed to set-up an annual joint mechanism to verify compliance of the Refugee Zakat Fund with Zakat conditions.
The (...)
The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance yesterday delivered the gift of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud from the publications of the King Fahd Complex for the printing of the Holy Quran, which included (...)
Saudi Arabia has transferred its $300 million deposit with the Central Bank of Mauritania into a soft loan, in implementation of directives by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and the Crown Prince.
It comes as part of the Kingdom's (...)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in implementation of directives by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and HRH the Crown Prince, has transferred its $300 million deposit with the Central Bank of Mauritania into a (...)
The conflict in Ukraine is driving up global food and fuel prices which is affecting efforts to feed millions in West Africa, where hunger levels have reached a 10-year high, the World Food Programme (WFP) reported on Thursday.
Operational costs for (...)
On behalf of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Deputy Minister of Defense Prince Khalid bin Salman has patronized the graduation ceremony of the 80th batch of cadets from King Abdulaziz Military College (...)
On behalf of His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Prince Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Minister of Defense, has patronized the graduation ceremony of the (...)
An estimated 6.3 million children under five, in six countries in Africa's Sahel region, will suffer from wasting this year, UN agencies and their partners warned in a publication issued on Wednesday.
The West and Central Africa Nutrition working (...)
The Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Hussain Ibrahim Taha met yesterday with
the Mauritanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Mauritanians Abroad Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, on sidelines of the 48th (...)
On behalf of His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Prince Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Minister of Defense patronized the graduation ceremony of the 35th (...)
At least 25 migrants are feared to have died at sea during an attempted sea crossing near Spain's Canary Islands.
Spanish police said that several migrants were "thrown overboard" based on survivors' testimonies.
Forty-eight people on the boat (...)
Prince Khalid bin Salman, deputy minister of defense patronized on Wednesday the graduation ceremony of the 19th batch of cadets from King Abdullah Air Defense College and the 22nd batch of the qualification course for university officers at the (...)
Untapped natural gas supplies in Sub-Saharan Africa are set to be unleashed this decade, with output more than doubling from 1.3 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) in 2021 to 2.7 million boepd in 2030 due to vast undeveloped deepwater (...)
On behalf of His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Prince Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Minister of Defense patronized the graduation ceremony of the 19th (...)
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, held a joint event Wednesday in Jeddah in collaboration with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)'s International Islamic Fiqh Academy (IIFA).
As part of the event titled "Islamic Philanthropy and its impact: (...)
Mauritania today strongly condemned the ongoing Houthi terrorist attacks against innocent civilians and economic facilities in the Kingdom.
The Mauritanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement today that these attacks on Jeddah, near the (...)
Mauritanian Foreign Minister Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed met in Islamabad today, on the sidelines of his participation in the forty-eighth session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), with the (...)
DAMMAM — The International Dates Council held the technical and founding meeting in Al-Ahsa on Wednesday.
The meeting was held in the presence of agriculture ministers from several countries and representatives of a number of dates producers and (...)
