Bourita Aguila Salah Issa

Tunisia recovers first “stolen” money

Tunisia has finally got some of the money that it refers to as “stolen” during the Ben Ali regime which lasted for 23 years. A sum of $28,8million which was recovered by the United Nations Stolen Asset Recovery team from a Lebanese bank account under the name of the former president’s wife, Leila Trabelsi. The […]

Morocco receives IMF’s Precautionary Liquidity Line worth $3.47 bln

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved on July 22 a two-year arrangement for Morocco under the Precautionary and Liquidity Line (PLL) for 3.47 billion dollars. The new PLL arrangement will provide Morocco with useful insurance against external shocks as the authorities pursue their reform agenda aimed at further strengthening the economy’s […]

IAEA inspectors plan visit to Algeria amid alarming reports over radioactive waste shipments to Teheran

A team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is expected to travel to Algeria to inspect civilian nuclear facilities and radioactive waste from the nuclear medicine amid alarming reports of secrete shipments of radioactive materials to Iran for “dirty bombs” making. The IAEA inspectors will focus on radioactive waste handling, disposal and […]