Tag: #Conflicts
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France, Mali at odds over dialogue with militants
Bamako, Oct 26 (AFP/APP):France and Mali differed on Monday over whether to talk to militants to help end the Sahel state’s eight-year-old insurgency, with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian ruling the option out. During a news conference in the capital Bamako, Le Drian distinguished between engaging with armed groups which had signed peace accords,…
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Peace, development interlinked with resolving conflicts like IIOJK: Chairman Senate
ISLAMABAD, August 23 (APP): Chairman Senate Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani on Sunday said that peace and development were interlinked with resolving conflicts like Indian Illegal Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and human rights violations in the world. He expressed these views at a ceremony held at Pakistan Institute of Parliamentary Services , said a press release…
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Pandemic’s economic fallout will worsen conflicts: UN diplomats
United States, Aug 4 (AFP/APP): The coronavirus pandemic is worsening the humanitarian situation in the world’s deadliest conflicts and threatens to unleash economic devastation that will intensify violence, United Nations diplomats and experts warn. COVID-19 is hampering aid programs, diverting the attention and resources of major powers battling the deadly virus at home, and cutting…