Algeria: The African champions qualify for the 2022 AfCON after a draw with Zimbabwe

Algeria drew 2-2 with Zimbabwe on Monday 16 November. The African champions still qualify for the final phase and join Senegal, African vice-champion, already qualified. Pigeon wing, double hook, and right cross strike. Once again, the captain of Les Fennecs, Riyad Mahrez showed the full extent of his talent against Zimbabwe to score the Greens’ […]

Morocco moves to institute unemployment benefits

Moroccan authorities, the employers’ association, CGEM, trade unions and the social security fund, CNSS, have finally agreed to institute unemployment benefits to ease the strain of the global financial crisis that is sparing no country. The project to set up such an allowance was first tabled some 12 years ago but several obstacles have so […]

Tunisia : Presidential candiates forthcoming

Hopeful presidential candidates have started preparing their dossiers with more than 10 candidates expected to vie for the post.  Current interim President, Moncef Marzouki, will be among them. He could be facing a stiff competition from Mustapha Ben Jaafar, a leading member of Tunisia’s former Troika government and the leader of the Democratic Forum for […]