Morocco’s Central Bank has decided to maintain the key interest rate unchanged at 2.25 percent due to deceleration in food prices and a slowdown of inflation from 2 % on average in the first quarter of this year to 0.7 % in April and 0.4 % in May. The decision was made by the Bank’s […]
Moroccan and Algerian nationals are planning yet a new initiative to put pressure on Algiers to open the borders, kept sealed since 1994. This time, activists have called for a march departing from the border towns of Maghnia in Algeria and Oujda in Morocco to the border crossing of Zouj Bghal on July 22, Moroccan […]
Authorities in eastern Libya have announced over the weekend that they have deported 700 Sudanese migrants back to their conflict-ridden homeland as part of a sweeping campaign against illegal migration and human trafficking. The deportees, some of whom were reported to have infectious diseases or criminal records, were sent by land to Sudan. This crackdown, […]
