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Moroccan cabinet approves setting up of strategic investment fund

The government council approved a decree setting up a strategic investment fund worth 45 billion dirhams to spur public-private investments. The fund is part of a stimulus package of 120 billion dirhams ($12.8 bln) to help the economy recover from the coronavirus impact. The same council extended a health emergency decree for an extra month […]

Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo detained again despite acquittal

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday asked that Ivory Coast’s former president, Laurent Gbagbo, should be kept in custody while they prepare an appeal against his acquittal. The court should only release Gbagbo and Charles Ble Goude, leader of the pro-Gbagbo militant group Young Patriots who was also acquitted, under strict conditions […]

Tindouf camps a tinderbox waiting to explode

Clashes broke out between rival armed gangs in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps, after three separatists handed over their arms and defected to Morocco, while Algeria has killed Sahrawi youth prospecting for gold. All of these happened in a single month, as the noose tightens around Algiers and the Polisario proxies to accept Morocco’s autonomy plan […]