Morocco’s budget deficit widened to 22.9 billion dirhams ($2.3 billion) at the end of May 2025, up from 11.2 billion dirhams a year earlier, the treasury said. The deficit was however offset by a positive balance of 14.1 billion dirhams from special treasury accounts and autonomously managed state services. Total ordinary revenues rose 19.6% year-on-year […]
The dominant party in the Tunisian legislature, Ennahdha, Tuesday rejected claims that some of its members have joined the 73 signatories of a petition asking the removal of the leader of the Islamist party Rached Ghannouchi as speaker of Parliament. The reaction came after Fayçal Tebbini, lawmaker from The Farmers’ Voice told local radio Jawhara […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied has intensified his confrontation with the country’s most powerful labor organization, the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT), in a move that analysts warn could further erode Tunisia’s democratic institutions and deepen its political crisis. The UGTT, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate for its role in Tunisia’s post-revolution democratic transition, has called […]
