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The United Arab Emirates’ Capital Abu Dhabi witnessed the start of the ‘Renewal of Religious Discourse’ conference, under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Participants at the conference include a number of religious leaders from around the world, who in turn will discuss several critical issues related to ‘Religious Renewal’ over the two-day conference. TunisianMonitorOnline

Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Elders and member of the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity, Dr. Sultan Al Remeithi has participated in the ‘The Culture of Encounter: The Future of Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue’ conference in the Italian Capital Rome. The conference is sponsored by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University and La Civiltà Cattolica and marks the first anniversary of ‘Fratelli Tutti’, His Holiness Pope Francis’ October 2020 encyclical. Dr. Al Remeithi said, “The collective Muslim mind is built on two very…

No less than 450 participants representing 25 countries will take part in the first edition of the rally “Tunisia Desert Challenge” scheduled from 5 to 13 November 2021, announced the organizers at a press conference held Friday, October 29 at the Ministry of Tourism. The conference was attended by Minister of Tourism Mohamed Moez Belhassan, Minister of Youth and Sports, Kamel Deguiche, President of the Tunisian Automobile Federation, Hatem Ben Youssef, the President of the Tunisian Motorcycle Federation, Mehdi Bach Hamba, and CEO of the Tunisian Oil Distribution Company, AGIL,…

The Center of Democracy, Citizenship and Development in Ben Arous is a program funded by the German Hans Seidel Foundation in partnership with the Tunisian League for Nationalism since its establishment in 2017. The center played a pivotal role in meeting the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic in recent years. It has trained more than 400 local leaders as part of the School of Governance Program. Besides, the various activities of the Center aimed at strengthening participatory democracy and principles of governance at the local level, in which representatives…

The Mediterranean basin emerged as the wildfire hotspot that contributed to intense smoke pollution Carbon dioxide emissions from wildfires in the past two months have touched a new high since 2003, from when records have been maintained.  The cumulative CO2 emissions from violent forest fires in the two months was 2643.4 megatonnes, Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) announced September 21, 2021.  Wildfires are common during the boreal (of the Northern Hemisphere) fire season that lasts from May to October. But the number of fires, their intensity, region covered and persistence were unusually…

Nearly 41,000 people reach Italian shores but many are denied asylum The number of migrants arriving on Italy’s shores has nearly doubled compared with last year. Almost 41,000 people have arrived in Italy by sea since January, compared with 21,000 over the same period in 2020, the national news said in a report posted Tuesday. The jump in numbers is not a one-off. Crossings during last year’s pandemic-affected summer were higher than in 2019. Warm summer weather and political instability in North Africa have been linked to the rising number of crossings,…

Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in the next three decades and create migration hot spots unless urgent action is taken to reduce global emissions and bridge the development gap, a World Bank report has found. The second part of the Groundswell report published Monday examined how the impacts of slow-onset climate change such as water scarcity, decreasing crop productivity and rising sea levels could lead to millions of what it describes as “climate migrants” by 2050 under three different scenarios with varying…