President of the Moroccan banks Professional Grouping (GPBM) and chairman & CEO of BMCE Bank, Othman Benjelloun, was recently elected vice-president of the Union of Arab Banks (UAB). The election took place during the Annual Arab Banking Conference held in Beirut, Lebanon, November 16-17 under the topic: Economic Stability at a Time of Uncertainty. Another […]
Nearly two months after reports emerged showing African migrants sold out as slaves in Libya, the African Union launched a repatriation operation that saw 13,000 migrants return to their homelands since last December. Speaking to the press, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mahamat Faki, noted that the number is still below the goal set […]
Germany has sent a strong message to Egypt saying business cooperation does not overshadow human rights as it has refused to extradite Aljazeera reporter who was tried in absentia in Egypt and handed 15 years in prison. Egyptian-British Aljazeera-TV journalist Ahmed Mansour was freed by the German justice after he spent two days in custody […]
