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Algeria’s Import Restrictions Doomed to Backfire

The slump in oil prices prompted the Algerian government to seek temporary measures to reduce the trade deficit. The most notorious among these were import restrictions that affected more than 800 products. Algeria’s protectionism has so far backfired producing counter-productive results in a country that failed to diversify its economy away from utter dependence on […]

Morocco’s approach to challenges in the Sahel based on security, human development, training

Morocco’s approach to address security and humanitarian challenges in the Sahel region is based on the indivisible triad of “security, human development and training,” said Moroccan Junior Foreign Minister Nezha El Ouafi. The Moroccan approach to address security and humanitarian challenges in the Sahel is based, as defined by King Mohammed VI, on a three-dimension […]

UN Resoundingly Rejects Trump’s Declaration of Jerusalem Capital of Israel

A decisive vote in the UN General Assembly has further isolated the US in the international community. The vote of 128 against nine, with 35 abstentions and 21 countries not voting, has been received in Washington as a stinging rebuke for Trump and a rejection of his unilateral declaration of Jerusalem as a capital of […]