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Morocco to launch Takaful insurance soon

Morocco is putting the final touches on the Takaful insurance key to a growing participatory finance triggered by real estate mainly. Speaking at a national insurance seminar, Central Bank Governor Abdellatif Jouahri said Takaful will be launched soon as the main stakeholders are working together to finalize it. A law on Takaful was approved by […]

Paris wants to draw on Morocco’s Imam training experience

Paris is looking forward to learning from Morocco’s extensive Imam training experience as it plans to stop hiring religious preachers from abroad, French interior minister Gerald Darmanin said. Darmanin visited Rabat on April 22 and met both interior minister Abdelouafi Laftit and Morocco’s religious affairs minister Ahmed Taoufiq. Following talks with Taoufiq, Darmanin said “the […]

Nigeria’s air force escalates fight against insurgents with precision strikes and major gains

In a bold escalation of its counterterrorism campaign, Nigeria’s military has killed 592 insurgents and destroyed over 200 technical vehicles in Borno State over the past eight months, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) announced this week. The operations, part of Operation Hadin Kai, have targeted Boko Haram and ISWAP militants entrenched in the country’s volatile […]