The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) approved on Thursday a $100 million loan to Moroccan “Banque Centrale Populaire (BCP) to support local small businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The loan is the second to the country under the EBRD Solidarity Package, set up to meet the immediate short-term financing needs of existing […]
As Algeria braces for another controversial presidential elections scheduled for next month with incumbent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika running for a fourth term, the country’s economic and social problems are building up with the drop in gas & oil output and revenues, heralding deep cracks in the country. According to Nourreddine Aït Laoussine, former CEO of […]
Sahraoui woman Khadijatou Mahmoud urged the Spanish judiciary to activate a search warrant against Polisario leader Ibrahim Ghali who is currently hospitalized at a Spanish hospital. Khadijatou said she was raped in 2010 by Ghali, who was then the separatist front’s representative in Algiers, whom she sued at a Spanish court the same year. […]
