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Morocco’s Strategic Investment Fund to give priority to productive activities

The $4.8 billion strategic investment fund, set up part of a stimulus package of 120 billion dirhams ($12.8 bln) to help the economy recover from the coronavirus impact, will give priority to productive activities and back up the financing of major investment projects, said, on Tuesday in Rabat, Minister of Economy & finance Mohamed Benchaâboun. […]

Morocco: Human Rights Association Sues PJD lawmaker for Terrorism Apology

A Moroccan Human rights NGO, the Association for Human Rights Defense (ADDH,) has sued lawmaker Amina Maelainine from the ruling Justice and Development Party (PJD) for terrorism apology. The lawmaker had openly endorsed extremist comments made by member of her party’s youth league, Omar Senhaji, reports say. Omar Senhaji had raised an uproar after he […]

US, Egypt put forward initiatives aimed at peaceful resolution of Sudan conflict

A slew of new peace initiatives have been put forward to end the armed conflict in Sudan, including by the United States and Egypt. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Tuesday (28 May) held a phone call with Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to find ways to “urgently end the conflict in Sudan and […]