Sir Suma Chakrabarti

Morocco’s handicrafts exports grow to $1 bln- minister

Morocco’s handicrafts exports grew to $1 billion in 2023, up 7% from a year earlier, tourism minister said. Speaking at a fair in Rabat, Fatima Zahra Ammour said her department was working to preserve 32 handicrafts. Morocco’s colourful and diversified handicrafts employ 20% of the total Moroccan workforce. Despite its strong social dimension, the sector […]

Turkey: EU’s Armenia genocide resolution is null and void

Three political parties namely the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) have signed a joint declaration stating that the resolution voted by the European parliament for Turkey to recognize that it committed genocide on the Armenians as an “inappropriate and […]

Equatorial Guinea votes with veteran ruler poised to extend 43 years in power

Equatorial Guinea went to the polls, with President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who has been in power for more than 43 years, all-but certain of winning a record sixth term in what is one of the most authoritarian and enclosed states in the world. The 80-years-old has had the longest tenure of any living head […]