UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly & of association, Maina Kiai, has voiced serious concerns over a draft law on Ngos & civil society associations, approved last month by the Council of Ministers. This bill “threatens the exercise of fundamental freedoms in the country, in particular the right to freedom […]
The 22nd session of the Assembly of State Parties to the Rome Statue elected Wednesday December 6 in New York Tunisian jurist Haykel Ben Mahfoudh as judge to Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) for a period of nine years. Mahfoudh, Prof. of Public international Law received 86 votes for the election, the highest vote received […]
Fitch Ratings has assigned Morocco’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) ‘BB+’ rating with a stable outlook due to the country’s macroeconomic stability, low inflation, a moderate share of foreign-currency debt in total general government debt and comfortable external liquidity buffers. Morocco’s fiscal deficit is expected to narrow to 6.3% of GDP in 2021 from […]
