The African Development Bank (AfDB) approved a loan of $200 million to Morocco to boost the country’s industrialization plan, local media said. The loan will help fund the first phase of the support program of the Industrial Acceleration Plan, which aims to create 500,000 jobs by 2020 and to increase the share of industry in […]
Tunisia’s Islamist party has chosen Simon Salama, a Tunisian Jew, as its candidate for the municipal elections in Monastir, south of Tunis. Salama said that Ennahda is a civilian party open to modernity, adding that all Jews in Tunisia could participate in civic, social and political life as Tunisian citizens. Salama, who was raised in […]
A new step forward in the legalization of cannabis cultivation in Morocco was made Thursday as the government adopted at its weekly meeting a decree regulating the activities related to the culture of the plant and selected three provinces, namely Al Hoceima, Chefchaouen and Taounate that will grow cannabis legally. This decree, drafted by the […]
