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Africa’s $824bn debt burden, opaque resource-backed loans, hamper continent’s economic potential — AfDB

African Development Bank (AfDB) has asked policymakers to put in place an orderly and predictable way of dealing with Africa’s ballooning, unsustainable external debt pile that reached $824 billion in 2021. Africa’s $824 billion debt burden, the servicing of which requires countries to dedicate 65% of their GDP, and opaque, non-transparent resource-backed loans hamper the […]

U.S.-Based NGO Calls on Algerian Regime to Stop Targeting Journalists

The New-York based Committee to Protect Journalists has called on the Algerian regime to immediately release freelance journalist and blogger Mourad At-Mimou and stop targeting journalists for their online commentary. Algerian plainclothes police officers arrested At-Mimou on July 7, while he was at a café in Tizi-Ouzou, in northern Algeria’s Kabylia region, according to a […]

Egypt: parliament rubber-stamps Japan’s fund for Universal Health Insurance System

The Egyptian legislature green-lighted Wednesday a signed agreement between the Government and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in which the Japanese agency will provide funds for the country’s Universal Health Insurance System (UHIS), Ahram Online reports. Egypt and JICA inked an agreement in March 2023 for the Japanese agency to provide a loan of […]