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Morocco greenlights return of Moroccan women, children linked to ISIS fighters in Syria

Morocco has approved the return of hundreds of women and children associated with the Islamic State group (ISIS) and other terror group fighters in Syria to return home, reports say. There are 671 persons (280 women and 391 children) held in camps in Northern Syria who are set to return home, local media in Arabic […]

Poverty, Inequality and Safety Nets in the MENA Region

By international standards, extreme poverty or destitution is relatively low in the countries of North Africa. According to the World Bank, the number of those living below 2 USD a day was 13.9 percent in 2008, which would make the region of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) the fourth poorest region in the world […]

EU slams Algeria’s barriers on trade with Spain

Head of EU Diplomacy Josep Borrell called, on Monday during his two-day visit to Algiers, for a solution to Algeria’s barriers on trade with Spain, introduced in June 2022. “The barriers introduced [by Algeria] to trade with Spain, since June 2022, must find a solution,” said the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign […]