The UN refugee agency UNHCR urged concrete actions to avert forced displacement in the war-ravaged Sahel, warning of a deteriorating humanitarian crisis. Nearly 3.3 million people were forced to flee their homes in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger due to increasing terrorist activity, exacerbated by drought, the UNHCR said in a statement. “The security situation […]
Abdellatif Jouahri, governor of Morocco’s central bank, Bank Al Maghrib, was distinguished as one of the best performing heads of central banks in the world in the Central Banker Report Cards 2017 established by US magazine Global Finance. Jouahri was listed as a shining central bank president in the prestigious A grade category along with […]
As Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies joined forces to stop the Iran-backed Houthi Shiite insurgents from tightening their grip on the impoverished country, many analysts say this joint Arab move to defend the legitimate Yemeni government may lead to the creation of an Arab army, a dream which has so far been an elusive […]
