Sub-Saharan Africa faces ‘lost decade’, its growth weighed down by continent’s heavyweights — World Bank

Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to decelerate this year by slumps in economic powerhouses South Africa, Nigeria and Angola, the World Bank has announced, expressing fears of a lost decade for the continent, faced with growing instability. For the current year, growth should reach 2.5%, compared with 3.6% last year, due in particular […]

Morocco, ICAO ink agreement to strengthen bilateral cooperation

Morocco and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) signed in Montréal a Management Services Agreement (MSA) to step up bilateral cooperation. The agreement was inked on the sidelines of the 42nd session of the ICAO Assembly by Moroccan minister of Transport and Logistics, Abdessamad Kayouh, and ICAO Secretary General, Juan Carlos Salazar. It is intended […]

Outrage mounts over arrest of writer Boualem Sansal in Algiers

The Algerian regime has confirmed through its news agency the arbitrary arrest of Boualem Sansal, a renowned novelist with a critic of the military regime in Algiers. In a diatribe on the national news agency APS, the military regime showed its contempt for free writers such as Sansal whom it called “pseudo writer,” while describing […]