Police in Ecuador seized 656.7 kg of cocaine dissimulated in a container bound for Tunisia, Business News reports. Fausto Buenaño Castillo, Chief of the Latin American country’s police, told media that security forces found the cocaine hidden in a container supposed to carry banana, during an operation dubbed “Víspera”. The drug shipment, estimated at $42 […]
Africa’s trade volume is projected to shrink in the first six month of 2024, as the recent attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels on commercial vessels will have a huge consequence on the economies of African countries, especially those in North and East Africa, says a new report compiled by Afrexim Bank. As Yemen-based militants continue […]
Morocco’s Competition Council has issued a wide-ranging advisory calling for structural reforms to the country’s pharmaceutical distribution sector, targeting regulatory bottlenecks, territorial inequalities in pharmacy coverage, outdated remuneration models, and insufficient digitalization across the medicine supply chain. At the heart of the Council’s recommendations is the urgent need to accelerate market authorization procedures. Currently, obtaining […]
