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Swiss foreign minister tours North and West Africa

Swiss and Algerian government delegations at a table

This content was published on Feb 9, 2021 Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis has held talks in Algeria at the start of a week-long visit to North and West Africa.

Military vehicles and soldiers patrol a road in Naypyitaw, Myanmar

International Geneva

Coup in Myanmar: What can the UN do?

This content was published on Feb 9, 2021 Officials at the Geneva-based UN evidence-gathering body for serious crimes in Myanmar are closely watching events in the southeast Asian nation.

International Geneva

Covid review: not all our predictions were wrong

This content was published on Feb 9, 2021 One year into the pandemic, we still have so many questions. Here in Geneva, we can put those questions to world leaders in public health.

International Geneva

Covid-19: When hindsight is 20-20

This content was published on Feb 9, 2021 It’s a year since Covid 19 went global, and we all headed into lockdown. In this episode Imogen Foulkes revisits some eerily prescient interviews.

International Geneva

Libya: Swiss welcome nomination of new interim government

This content was published on Feb 5, 2021 Switzerland has welcomed the selection of a new unified transitional authority for Libya.

Foreign Affairs

Swiss to boost ‘laptop’ diplomat network

This content was published on Feb 5, 2021 Swiss to send more diplomatic staff abroad after the coronavirus pandemic highlighted the need for more personnel on the ground, SRF reports.

Foreign Affairs

Switzerland to return $266 million in illegal commissions to Taiwan

This content was published on Feb 4, 2021 The money, worth CHF240 million, is part of illicit kickbacks on the sale of six French-made Lafayette warships to Taiwan in 1991.

International Geneva

In the vaccine race, can COVAX help poorer countries catch up?

This content was published on Feb 4, 2021 COVAX expects to start rolling out Covid-19 vaccines to poorer countries at the end of February. Can it really help them catch up?

Foreign Affairs

WEF forced to postpone Singapore meeting to August

This content was published on Feb 3, 2021 The World Economic Forum’s special annual meeting – exceptionally being held in Singapore this year – has been pushed back by three months.

suit, tie and pin with Swiss and UK flags

Foreign Affairs

Brexit explainer: visiting, studying and working in Switzerland

This content was published on Feb 3, 2021 From holidays to studying to finding a job in the Alpine nation, we look at what has changed for UK nationals.

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