22 March 2022; MEMO: Jordan's King Abdullah II is to visit the occupied West Bank in bid to prevent possible tension during the holy month of Ramadan, Arab48.com reported on Monday. The monarch will meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during his visit, which will take place before the start of the fasting month.
21 March 2022; MEMO: Iranians on Monday marked the beginning of the new Persian year, Nowruz, with festive fervour, after two years of COVID-19 restrictions, Anadolu News Agency reports.
Nowruz, which means 'new day' in Persian, coincides with the spring equinox, which falls on 21 March every year.
This year's celebrations are relatively grand as coronavirus restrictions have been gradually eased in recent months in the wake of a drop in infections and deaths from the pandemic.
22 March 2022; MEMO: The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on Monday for the international community to implement the law and dismantle Israel's apartheid regime, Al-Sabeel newspaper has reported.
22 March 2022; MEMO: Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said yesterday that Italy fully supports Turkey's mediation efforts to end the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, Anadolu has reported.
"Turkey is not only a NATO ally," Maio told journalists after an EU Foreign Ministers' meeting in Brussels, "but it is also an important country for the dialogue to bring the parties to a peace agreement at this stage." He added that had met his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu and discussed how the negotiations were going.
22 March 2022; MEMO: Dozens of international organisations, human rights networks, academics and researchers from forty-five countries have called on the UN and the West to sanction Israel for its occupation of Palestine and its apartheid regime, Wafa news agency has reported.
22 March 2022; MEMO: The US imposed sanctions yesterday on Sudan's Central Reserve Police Force, accusing it of being "excessive" in its response to peaceful protesters after last October's military coup, Reuters has reported. According to the US Treasury, the Central Reserve Police Force has been at the forefront of the "violent response" of Sudanese security forces to peaceful protests in Khartoum.
21 March 2022; MEMO: In the Tunisian capital, thousands of Tunisians have demonstrated on Sunday 20 March, 2022, to commemorate the 66th anniversary of Independence, and to call for overthrowing of what they call "the coup". This demonstration came as a response to a call launched by the "Citizens against the Coup" campaign, according to Anadolu Agency.
21 March 2022; MEMO: Egypt has set a fixed price for unsubsidised bread in an effort to counter rising food prices after Russia's invasion of Ukraine closed off access to lower-priced Black Sea wheat, Reuters reports.
Prime Minister, Moustafa Madbouly, on Monday, set the price of commercially sold bread at 11.50 Egyptian pounds ($0.66) per kg, his office said in a statement.
21 March 2022; MEMO: A ceremony was organised in the Gaza Strip on Monday to commemorate South Africa's anti-apartheid icon and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Desmond Tutu, Anadolu News Agency reports..
Organised by the Council of International Relations, a Gaza-based NGO, the ceremony was attended by a host of Palestinian and South African figures, including South Africa's Ambassador, Shaun Edward Byneveldt.
ALGIERS, March 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Algeria has recalled its ambassador from Madrid in protest at Spain’s decision to back a Moroccan autonomy plan for the disputed former Spanish colony of Western Sahara.
Morocco sees Western Sahara, with rich phosphate resources and access to lucrative Atlantic fishing waters, as an integral part of its territory.
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