Earlier this month, the Africa Center for Strategic Studies organised a Senior Leader Seminar which brought together military and civilian leaders from all over Africa to discuss issues related to security. Nouzha Skalli Bennis, member of the PPS, Morocco's former communist party, and municipal counsellor from Casablanca, represented the Democratic Association of Moroccan Women at the conference. She spoke with allAfrica.com about her work.

The first ever Global Forum of Food Safety Regulators has opened, seeking ways to improve the safety of food worldwide at every step of the food production chain — from farmers, through processors and retailers, to consumers.

A broad range of Australian trade unions, church groups, student organisations and human rights bodies have signed a statement condemning ongoing human rights violations perpetrated by Morocco in the occupied territory of Western Sahara.

Climate talks have resumed to finalize the procedures and institutions that will make the Kyoto Protocol fully operational. The world’s governments are meeting here from today through November 9 to work out exactly how to reduce the emissions of six greenhouse gases that are linked to global warming.