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Morocco’s tourism revenue up 10% in January

Morocco’s tourism continues its impressive performance with 10% increase in receipts to 8.8 billion dirhams or 880 million dollars, the foreign exchange office said. Remittances from Moroccans living abroad rose 0.5% to 950 million dollars in the first month this year. Foreign direct investments jumped 24% to 500 million dirhams, helping attenuate the country’s current […]

West Africa’s ‘Brexit’: Mali stays with regional currency zone, Burkina Faso weighs exit

Mali has said it has no intentions of leaving West Africa’s currency zone, while Burkina Faso has hinted at its possible withdrawal after they, along with Niger, announced their departure from the region’s political bloc ECOWAS as a form of protest. In a blow to hard-fought regional integration, late January, the military governments of Burkina […]

Libya: Saif al-Islam and 36 officials await verdict on 28 June

Saif al-Islam, Ghadafi’s son, and 36 other officials of the Gadhafi regime will know their fate on June 28 when the Tripoli court presents its ruling after hearings ended. The defendants are being accused of war crimes, corruption, suppressing peaceful protests during the 2011 uprising among other charges. The trial started last year in April […]