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Morocco’s 2026 Gender Budget Report Tallies Steady Legal Gains for Women

Morocco’s Ministry of Economy and Finance has published the 2026 edition of its Gender-Responsive Budget Report (RBG 2026), providing a structured overview of the legal and institutional advances made in favor of gender equality across government ministries. The report is produced in the context of Morocco’s demographically transitional moment, as revealed by the 2024 general […]

Tunisia: Powerful UGTT calls for strike after student stabbed teacher

UGTT, Tunisia’s most powerful workers’ union, has called for a general strike for this Tuesday to denounce the stabbing of a high school teacher by a student in the costal town of Ezzahra, south of capital Tunis. Sahbi Ben Slama, a high-school History and Geography teacher was assaulted by a student who stabbed him multiple […]

Morocco awards Canada’s Aya Gold & Silver Inc. seven new exploration permits

Canadian mining company Aya Gold & Silver is expanding the scope of its operations in Morocco where it has been granted seven new exploration permits located in a known copper-gold-silver-bearing area. Five permits located within the prolific Zgounder Regional area, increase Aya’s exploration land holdings from 112 km2 to 168 km2, while the two other […]