This is the weekly bulletin bringing to you some interesting articles from UN Desk, covering topics across continents and borders.

• Africa: Balancing Morocco’s indigenous culture and conservation– The delicate balance between indigenous farming practices and conservation in Morocco is under threat, but according to the UN, local communities in the Western High Atlas Mountains are finding ways to preserve traditions and still make a living from the land.
• Americas: Murals help heal wounds of bloody conflict in Guatemala— “The villagers knew that the military kidnapped [indigenous] people and brought them here and tortured them. While alive, they were forced to dig their own graves. Some would be buried in the ground, here, still half alive.” The chilling words of Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez, a member of an indigenous group in Guatemala.
• Asia: ‘Bicycle Kingdom’ makes a comeback, as China seeks solutions to tackle air pollution crisis— Cars have replaced bicycles as the primary means of transport in many Chinese cities but, with air pollution a major problem for the country, the bike is making a comeback, thanks to digital technology, and some 21st Century thinking. 
• Middle East: Vital food crops destroyed in Syria amid upsurge in fighting across Idlib, Hama— Thousands of acres of crops have been destroyed in Syria’s Idlib and north Hama provinces amid ongoing deadly violence, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday, in a call to the warring parties to stop using food security to hold people “hostage”. 
• Europe: A ‘strong and united Europe’ has never been more needed, declares UN chief Guterres— With the post-world war international institutions eroded and under threat, a “strong and united Europe” standing alongside the United Nations, has never been more essential, said UN chief António Guterres in Germany on Thursday.