World Bank to resume partnership with Tunisia after two-month hiatus

The World Bank announced Wednesday the resumption of its partnership with Tunisia, two months after suspending cooperation with the North African country following President Kais Saied’s remarks on Sub-Saharan African migrants deemed racist. Tunisia and the Washington-based institution prior March were in talks for a $500 million program encompassing direct support to the hardest-hit families […]

OIC official commends Moroccan King’s leading role in support of Al Quds

Chairman of the Council of Secretaries of the Humanitarian Funds of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Hassan Al-Thani, commended the “leading” role of King Mohammed VI, Chairman of the Al Quds Committee, in supporting the Holy City, its inhabitants and its institutions. During a visit to the headquarters in Rabat […]

Morocco government seeks parliament approval for additional budget funding

The Moroccan government needs to increase its 2024 budget by 14 billion dirhams ($1.4 billion) to meet expenditures linked to subsidizing electricity prices and wage hikes, minister delegate in charge of the budget Fouzi Lekjaa said. In a presentation at the finance committee in parliament, Lekjaa recalled that the government has approved a decree to […]