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Candidate for Tunisia’s presidential elections to remain in jail

A Tunisian court ordered that candidate for Tunisia’s Presidential elections and media mogul Nabil Karoui must stay in detention for now on suspicion of financial crimes. The ruling on Tuesday came less than two weeks before the second round of voting which will see the media magnate compete with 61-year-old retired law professor Kais Said […]

EBRD supports Morocco’s pharmaceutical industry with €34.5 Mln funding

The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) announced on Monday a €34.5 million loan to Dislog Group, a leading manufacturer and distributor of hygiene & pharmaceutical products. The funding consists of two tranches. €24.5 million will be used by Dislog to acquire Steripharma, a local pharmaceuticals manufacturer that provides affordable specialty generics medicines to […]

Workshop in Rabat on LIBOR Reform & Morocco’s New Money Market Benchmark

Morocco’s Central Bank, Bank Al-Maghrib, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development organized on Wednesday in Rabat a workshop on London Inter-bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) reform and the new money market benchmark in the North African country. Participants in the workshop discussed the implications of changes in the benchmark indexes used on the international […]