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Mauritania Moves to Strengthen Energy and Food Reserves Amid Global Price Pressures

Mauritania has announced plans to increase its strategic reserves of energy and food supplies to safeguard the domestic market amid tensions in the Middle East and rising global energy prices.   Speaking at the Government’s weekly press briefing, Minister of Energy and Petroleum Mohamed Ould Mohamed Malainine Ould Khaled said five tankers carrying petroleum products […]

Morocco’s budget deficit drops to $6.4 bln in 2024

Morocco’s budget deficit shrunk to 64.4 billion dirhams ($6.4 bln) in 2024, from 74.9 billion dirhams, as a rise in government revenue continued to offset higher spending, the Moroccan treasury said. The deficit eased to 3.9% last year from 4.4% a year earlier, as the government increases its ordinary revenue and tax receipts, it said. […]

HRW Denounces Algeria’s Detention of Pro-Autonomy Activists

Human Rights Watch has called on Algerian authorities “to release or try in a fair and open trial a pro-Amazigh activist, Kameleddine Fekhar, and his 24 co-defendants”. Fekhar has since 2013 called for autonomy of the Mzab, a northern Sahara region, and has condemned the Algerian government for “complicity in crimes against humanity by Sunni […]