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Gambia: US announces financial sanctions against Former First Lady Zineb Souma Yahya Jammeh

The US Treasury announced that financial sanctions have been applied to the former First Lady of The Gambia, Zineb Souma Yahya Jammeh, who has been living in exile in Equatorial Guinea since February 2017. The wife of the former Gambian dictator is suspected of controlling many assets in the United States. The US Treasury Department […]

Morocco to Launch a New Housing Program

Morocco’s long-awaited housing program for the middle class is about to be launched. The country’s housing minister, Nabil Benabdallah, announce that the new program wouuld give thousands of Moroccan families an access to affordable and decent housing. The official plan is to build about 20,000 houses by the end of 2016, and the government has […]

Libya, “a priority situation” for the ICC in 2017, Bensouda

Fatou Bensouda, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), said in a briefing before the UN Security Council (UNSC) that Libya is high on her Office’s agenda. “My commitment to make Libya a priority situation in 2017 is compelled by a number of factors” such as widespread violence, lawlessness and impunity in the country, a […]