Morocco announces $12.8 bln to help economy recover from Coronavirus impact

King Mohammed VI said Morocco will inject 120 billion dirhams (12.8 billion dollars) as a post-coronavirus crisis stimulus package to offer incentives and come up with solidarity measures to support businesses, especially small and medium-sized enterprises. The package represents 11% of Morocco’s GDP, “a proportion that will place Morocco at the forefront of the most […]

Senegal’s new leadership faces challenges in delivering promised reforms

Six months into his presidency, Senegal’s Bassirou Diomaye Faye is finding it challenging to implement the radical reforms he promised during his campaign. Faye, who swept to power with a leftist, anti-establishment agenda, is facing resistance from a parliament still dominated by supporters of the previous administration. The new government, led by Faye and his […]

Congo: Sassou Nguesso’s party wins Senators’ elections

Congolese Labor Party (PCT), the party of President Denis Sassou Nguessou, has won the majority of seats in the country’s Senate polls held on Sunday August 20. The party won 52 seats out of the 72 available in the upper house, according to the result put out by the Interior ministry Wednesday August 23. “This […]