Tunisian judges have launched a week-long strike to protest President Kais Saied’s “interference” in the judiciary, days after he sacked 57 of their colleagues, accusing them of corruption and protecting “terrorists”. The president sacked last Thursday 57 judges, under a Presidential Decree issued in the Official Gazette on June 1, after amending the Decree on […]
Over the past thirty years, the inhabitants of Moroccan Oriental province have enjoyed unlimited cross-border ‘trade’ in petrol with neighboring Algeria. All-purpose petrol smuggling has been thriving even though the border has been officially closed since 1994 due to the murder of two Spanish tourists, who were allegedly killed by Algerian extremists. The border crossing […]
Morocco’s OCP group has selected Scottish mining technology Company Weir to provide energy efficient, sustainable solutions to the next phase of OCP’s Benguerir and Louta greenfield phosphate projects. Under a £25 million contract, Weir pledges to support the continued construction of the Louta project and the trebling of production from the Benguerir project, where Weir […]
