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Mohammed VI Champions Cup: Morocco’s Raja & Wydad to clash in last 16 round

Raja Casablanca and Wydad Casablanca qualified for the 16 round fixtures of the 2019–20 Arab Club Champions Cup, known officially as the Mohammed VI Champions Cup. The two teams will clash for the last 16 following draw done on October 5 in Saudi Arabia. The two Moroccan giants will first lock horns for the first […]

Algeria: IMF Predicts Economic Stagnation

IMF’s economic predictions for Algeria augur no growth for 2016 while forecast for 2017 signals further slump in the country’s economy with GDP expected to go down to 2.9 per cent, with payment balance estimated at 16.2 per cent of the GDP. 2016 predictions for growth of the Algerian economy according to the International Monetary […]

Algeria arrests economists who criticized Tebboune’s iron mine project

Reports suggested that Algerian economist and financial-engineering expert Djelloul Slama has been detained after commenting on the country’s iron-ore megaproject project, marketed as an economic milestone by the regime of Tebboune. Slama is a well-known media commentator whose analyses on Algerian economic policy, fiscal imbalances and structural challenges are widely disseminated in Algeria. He is […]