Morocco showcases public enterprise reform success at World Bank meeting

Morocco’s public enterprise reform experience took center stage at the World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington Wednesday, with Economy and Finance Minister Nadia Fettah highlighting the sector’s pivotal role in national economic development and job creation during a panel on employment-generating public enterprise reforms. The kingdom’s 60 commercial public enterprises contribute significantly to economic vitality, […]

UN experts call for war crimes probe into Wagner group, gov’t forces in Mali

UN experts on Tuesday (31 January) called for an independent investigation into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Russian private military contractor Wagner Group and government forces in Mali. This comes just days after the US formally designated (26 January) Russia’s Kremlin-affiliated Wagner Group as a transnational criminal organization responsible for widespread […]

Washington & EU Support Algerian People’s Right to Protest

The United States and the European Union have called on the Algerian authorities to respect the rights of Algerian people to peaceful protest, freedom of assembly and of speech as the oil-rich country is rocked by popular protests against the candidacy of ailing and absent Pdt Abdelaziz Bouteflika for a fifth term. The situation in […]