Nigeria won an important victory before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), in a decision handed down on July 6, 2019, in a case brought against the African state by Switzerland.

The Tribunal’s Order on Provisional Measures, in The M/T “San Padre Pio” Case (Switzerland v. Nigeria), upheld Nigeria’s right to arrest and detain a Swiss-flagged oil tanker, its crew, and cargo, for having violated Nigeria’s"...

AMMAN, Monday, July 08, 2019 (WAFA) - The Jordanian and Palestinian governments agreed on automatic linking of customs and the exchange of customs information electronically at their joint crossings within a mechanism that secures the privacy of each party's customs, and to use information to facilitate trade, the Palestinian Ministry of Finance announced today.

The agreement was reached at the end of talks held yesterday between Finance Minister"...

Palestinian government today signed an agreement to support the third phase of the Joint Financing Arrangement (JFA III) for 22 million euros, according to a statement from the office of Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh.

The agreement was signed by Palestinian Minister of Finance Shukri Bishara, Education Minister Marwan Awartani, and donors, which included Ireland representative to Palestine Jonathan Conlon, Finnish Ambassador to Palestine Anna-Kaisa"...

The United Kingdom announced yesterday that it would increase this year’s support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to $85.5 million, today said a press release.

Speaking at the UNRWA Pledging Conference in New York, the UK highlighted its continuing commitment to supporting Palestinian refugees. It undertook to provide"...

Economic plans were tried before as a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and they have failed, a senior Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official said today.

Speaking at a press conference in Ramallah, Hanan Ashrawi, member of the PLO’s Executive Committee, said the fate of the new American-sponsored economic plan presented by Jarod Kushner, senior"...

The United Nations Development Programme and the Government of Japan, in partnership with the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture, Palestinian Energy and Natural Resources Authority (PENRA) and the Costal Municipalities Water Utility inaugurated the Photo Voltaic Solar System for the Rafah Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Plants project.

The project, worth US$ 500,000, will provide more than 170,000 Palestinians, including farmers, in Gaza with improved"...

AMMAN — There are no alternatives to the two-state solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission Federica Mogherini said on Tuesday.

The minister and Mogherini stressed that no economic proposal can replace a prospective solution founded on the basis of the two-state solution, according to a Foreign"...

AMMAN — Deputising for his Majesty King Abdullah, Jordan’s Ambassador to Kazakhstan Yousuf Abdul Ghani on Saturday participated in the fifth iteration of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA), according to a Foreign Ministry statement.

The closing statement of the conference highlighted CICA members’ support of Hashemite Custodianship over Jerusalem’s holy sites.

The"...

GAZA, Friday, June 14, 2019 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Minister of Local Government Majdi al-Saleh and representatives of the European Union, France and the World Bank inaugurated on Wednesday the Al-Fukhari (Sofa) sanitary landfill site near the city of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.

This strategic infrastructure project is the second largest landfill in the Gaza Strip. It will benefit almost half of Gaza population and will have major positive"...