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Morocco: WB backs reform program targeting poor, vulnerable layers with $500 million loan

The World Bank (WB) has just approved a $500 million loan to improve protection against health risks, childhood human capital losses, old-age poverty and climate change in Morocco. This is the first in a series of three grants for a government reform program that is concurrently receiving support from other development partners, the Washington-based organization […]

Tunisian lone wolf kills four in Synagogue attack

A Tunisian security officer killed two of his colleagues and two visitors of a synagogue, in an attack that bodes ill for Tunisia’s image and its slowly recovering tourism sector. The attack targeted an old synagogue in Djerba, crowded with visitors and hundreds of Jewish pilgrims from Europe and Israel. The attacker, a police officer […]

Morocco exposes Algeria’s ‘double speak’ on MINURSO and human rights

Morocco had expressed its firm rejection of Algeria’s double speak as it desperately seeks to expand the mandate of the UN mission to the Sahara, MINURSO, to include human rights. Speaking in a public debate at the Security Council, Algeria’s representative to the UN, reiterated his country’s call for the MINURSO to include human rights […]