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EBRD supports Moroccan cheese-maker with additional €3.5 Mln funding

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced on Tuesday an additional €3.5 million loan to Land’Or Maroc Industries (LMI), a Moroccan subsidiary of Land’Or, a leading Tunisian producer of processed cheese. The new financing will enable LMI to purchase and install additional equipment and build a storage extension at its new cheese manufacturing […]

Algeria’s Trade Deficit Worsens to Over $ 10 billion

Algeria trade deficit widened to $10.33 billion during the first nine months of 2015, against a $4.09 billion surplus a year earlier, after a sharp fall in energy earnings caused by global drop in crude oil prices. The new figures confirm the deteriorating economic situation in the North African country, member of the OPEC cartel. […]

WHO Chief, others slam ‘racist’ calls by French doctors to use Africa as COVID-19 vaccine testing ground

The World Health Organization chief has angrily slammed as “racist” and a remnant of the “colonial mentality” recent comments made by two French scientists suggesting a vaccine for the new coronavirus should be tested in Africa. “Africa cannot and will not be a testing ground for any vaccine,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a […]