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Tunisia: Parliament holds inaugural session, political tussles begin

Ahead of the Presidential elections later on this month, attention in Tunisia has shifted to the parliament’s first session. The newly elected 217 members of the parliament were present to honor the inaugural session which was also marked by a speech by the president of the outgoing interim assembly, Mustapha Ben Jaffar. The parliamentary elections […]

Moroccan, Mauritanian armies discuss closer cooperation

Senior officials of the Moroccan and Mauritanian armies held their second joint committee in Nouakchott focusing on the means to reinforce cooperation to secure their shared borders. The meeting comes after a three-day visit by Moroccan chief of staff Abdelfattah Louarak to Mauritania leading a senior level delegation. The importance of this meeting also stems […]

Africa’s dollar drought pushes more continent’s countries to economic crises

Africa is in the grip of a dollar drought and the current continent-wide scarcity of the US dollar is further pushing many already beleaguered African countries into deeper economic crises, according to a new Bloomberg report. Several Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, including Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana and Tanzania, have for several months experienced shortages of the […]