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Morocco: Abortion Regulating Text in the Pipeline

King Urges Stakeholders to Speed up Action After lengthy debates on the controversial issue of abortion or voluntary interruption of pregnancy, it became clear that it was necessary to amend the current Penal Code which allows abortion only in case pregnancy endangers the life of the mother. Discussions on illegal abortion and the need to […]

Egyptian companies win about $2bn-contracts in Libya to set up power stations

Libya has signed multiple billion-dollar contracts with a number of Egyptian companies to set up power stations in the oil-rich country. Salama Al-Ghwail, Libya’s State Minister for Economic Affairs, told Egyptian media the contracts are worth between $1.5 billion and $2 billion. Al-Ghwail said Egyptian companies should win between 60 to 70% of the reconstruction […]

UN Envoy Fears Return to Outright War in Sahara

The war scenario between Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario separatists was at the heart of talks separately held by the UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy for the Sahara with the Foreign Ministers of Spain and Mauritania. On the backdrop of the cease-fire violations by the Polisario militias in the buffer zone of Guerguarat and the […]