Morocco’s unemployment rate eased to 9.1% by June 2018, compared to 9.3 the same period last year, Morocco’s High Planning Commission (HCP) said. Between June 2017 and June 2018, the Moroccan economy created 117,000 jobs, 74,000 of them in cities and 42,000 in rural areas, while a year earlier it only created 74.000 jobs, HCP […]
The foundation stone of the first cocoa processing plant in Côte d’Ivoire was laid Thursday in the port city of San Pedro. The plant is expected to process half of the country’s cocoa production. The plant, funded by regional financial conglomerate Atlantic Bank Group, will cost around €111 million and will stretch over 9 hectares […]
Nearly 750,000 people are on the brink of starvation in war-torn Sudan, where the conflict between rival army factions aggravates the humanitarian situation, the global authority on famine said. The war left nearly half Sudan’s 48 million population suffering from hunger in areas including the capital Khartum, according to the latest figures from the Integrated […]
