Tag: economic crisis

Saudi Arabia to provide Tunisia $500m as soft loan and grant

July 21, 2023

Saudi Arabia will give Tunisia $500 million as a soft loan and a grant to help improve its public finances with the national budget suffering ... Read More

Low turnout haunts Tunisia’s parliamentary vote as economic crisis bite

January 28, 2023

Few Tunisians are expected to cast ballots in the second round of a vote for a parliament that has been stripped out of its powers ... Read More

Tunisia foils 8 illegal migration attempts, detains 231 people

November 2, 2022

Tunisia announced Tuesday its National Guards forces curbed eight illegal migration attempts and arrested 213 people from different regions of the country, Anadolu news agency ... Read More

Egypt: Central bank governor resigns amidst economic crisis, declining currency

August 17, 2022

Egypt's central bank governor, Tareq Amer, resigned on Wednesday amid the country's ongoing economic crisis and the Egyptian President accepted his resignation, according to several ... Read More

Algeria: 2021, another Annus Horribilis for military junta, de facto rulers

December 28, 2021

Algerians from all walks of life continued to suffer in 2021 from acute shortage of bread, milk, cooking oil, potatoes, sugar, pasta, oxygen for covid-19 ... Read More

Algeria’s president never-ending Brouhaha

October 12, 2021

As Algeria sinks into an unprecedented economic and social crisis, Algeria’s president indulges himself and his military rulers with his diatribes against Morocco, Israel and ... Read More

Tunisia: State might no longer pay salaries, supply power – Parliament Speaker warns

August 6, 2020

The Tunisian state might no longer be able to pay salaries to civil servants and supply electricity of its citizens, Rached Ghannouchi speaker of the ... Read More

Budget crisis, Structural Challenges Delay Completion of Algeria’s Mega Mosque

August 27, 2016

The plummeting oil prices propelled Algeria in an economic crisis marked by a sharp decrease in exports and a deepening budget deficit threatening to halt ... Read More

Does Algeria Need Nuke Power Plant?

March 8, 2016

Algeria, member of the OPEC Cartel and a major oil & gas producer in the region, has raised regional and international concerns when it announced ... Read More

Mauritania seeks mobilization of $117 million to support youth

January 20, 2016

The Mauritanian Government will next month organize a roundtable with its technical and financial partners in a bid to mobilize $117 million necessary to implement ... Read More