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Moroccan parliament to abolish retirement pensions for MPs

Parliament speaker and heads of parliamentary groups agreed to scrap the pension system for MPs, which is on the verge of bankruptcy and has been a hot topic in the media. MPs retirement fund has been suffering from chronic deficit since 2017 that led to a halt in pension payments. Moroccan MPS receive 35,000 dirhams […]

Kenyan MPs demand more details on secret $5bn railway loan deal with China

Some Kenyan lawmakers are demanding to see more documents from a secret $5bn loan agreement with a Chinese bank that financed a cross-country railway, with critics of the deal blaming the government of the day for having given too much legal authority to China. The 2011 agreement was shielded from public view until Kenya’s transport […]

Earthquake: Foreign rescue teams work in coordination with Moroccan Authorities

Rescuers from the Royal Armed Forces, the gendarmerie, the civil protection and other departments on Monday faced a growing race against time to dig any survivors from the rubble of devastated villages in Al Haouz in central Morocco, three days after the strong earthquake that has killed nearly 2,700 people and injured over 2,500 so […]