Zambia, the first African country to default on its debt in the COVID-19 era, has won International Monetary Fund board approval for a $1.3bn support package, an important step towards the nation restructuring its debt and a boost for the global effort to help indebted developing nations. The lending plan — an Extended Credit Facility […]
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced support for a research in Morocco on the integration of solar energy microgrid into ‘smart buildings’ in partnership with National Instruments. The Moroccan solar energy research is among the 49 final projects selected by the USAID Global Development Lab from over 650 worldwide scientific proposals. The […]
U.S. congressmen Joe Wilson (Republican) and Jimmy Panetta (Democrat) have introduced in June a legislation designating Algeria-backed Polisario militias a foreign terrorist organization. On August 24, the 90-day deadline stipulated by H.R. 4119: “Polisario Front Terrorist Designation Act” expired, setting in motion the legal process for branding the Polisario separatist group as a Foreign Terrorist […]
