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US State Department should listen to Moroccan victims of sexual assault too

In a flagrant intervention in Morocco’s domestic affairs and the judiciary, the US State Department issued a statement condemning the verdict against a Moroccan journalist sued on sexual assault charges against a member of the LGBTQ community in Morocco. “The United States is disappointed by reports that a court in Morocco has sentenced journalist Soulaiman […]

Mozambique’s ex-finance minister to be extradited to US for role in bond fraud

Mozambique’s former Finance Minister, Manuel Chang, will reportedly be extradited to New York next month to face charges in the United States over his role in a $2 billion bond fraud scandal involving also Credit Suisse Group AG that paid $475 million for its role in alleged fraud, a UN prosecutor said on Monday June […]

EBRD to approve new $100 mln loan for Banque Misr to finance MSMEs

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is set to approve by end of May a $100 million loan program to Banque Misr, under the Financial Intermediaries Framework (“FIF”), to finance micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). The program, according to the EBRD website, will support BM’s lending to private MSMEs in Egypt, where […]