Tunisia recoups part of looted money deposited in Swiss banks

The Tunisian government has recovered a portion of money stolen by members of late President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali’s regime, deposited in Swiss banks, the North African country’s lawyer in charge of the State’s litigation has revealed declining to indicate the amount. Ali Abbas told local media Assabah that the sums have been recovered after […]

WestMed: Morocco Appointed Co-chair of Steering Committee for 2019

Morocco took over from Algeria as co-chair, with France, for the year 2019, of the Steering Committee of the ministerial conference on the initiative for sustainable development of the blue economy in the western Mediterranean, known as the WestMed Initiative. At the ministerial meeting convened in Algiers on December 3-4, Morocco has been officially designated, […]

Parliamentary Report Lambasts Gas Distributors for Expensive Sale Prices

A Parliamentary inquiry presented on Tuesday rebuked gas distributing companies for increasing their profits and undermining the citizen’s purchasing power after the state liberalized the market in 2015. The report was presented amid an ongoing consumer boycott that hurt the finances of three brands operating in fuel distribution (Afriquia), dairy (Central Danone) and bottled water […]