Mauritania: Towards reduction of prices of certain staple foods

The Mauritanian Ministry of Commerce announced a new memorandum of understanding with the Federation of Commerce, aimed at lowering the prices of essential foodstuffs. This agreement seeks to alleviate the financial strain on Mauritian consumers by stabilizing the cost of basic groceries amid challenging economic conditions. According to the Ministry’s statement, the new pricing concerns […]

West African leaders pledge to mobilize $1bn to tackle terrorism

Leaders of the Western African regional grouping ECOWAS have pledged to club together $1 billion as urgent fund to address terrorism in the region. The pledge came Sunday during the 62nd summit of heads of state of the bloc in Abuja, Nigeria. A communique of the summit read Tuesday indicated that the leaders expressed their […]

Morocco braces for a review of budget law

The coronavirus has imposed the need for an amendment of the budget law that will gear focus to education, health, social protection and digital transformation. A cabinet meeting was chaired in this respect Wednesday by head of the Government Saad Eddine EL Othmani to discuss the broad line of the new appropriation bill. The restrictive […]