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COVID-19: Moroccan economic monitoring committee accelerates pace for recovery

The economic monitoring committee, set up since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Morocco early March, is making every effort to resume economic activities and put economic recovery on the right track, after more than two months of confinement, which heavily impacted several sectors of the national economy. The committee members discussed at a […]

Naval Academy Commander assassinated near Tripoli

On September 1 evening, Abdulrahman Milad, also known as “Al-Bidja,” the Commander of the Naval Academy in Libya, was assassinated by gunmen as he was leaving the academy in Sayyad, located west of Tripoli. In response to the assassination, protests erupted in Zawiya, Milad’s hometown, where demonstrators blocked the coastal road. The former head of […]

Côte d’Ivoire ex-leader Henri Konan Bédié dies at 89

Henri Konan Bedie, former Ivorian President, passed away Tuesday August 1 at the age of 89, after being admitted in a local clinic of the economic capital Abidjan. “The Ivory Coast Democratic Party-African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RDA) is deeply saddened” to announce the “sudden death” of Bedie in hospital in Abidjan Tuesday,” his party in the […]