UK Africa Investment Summit London Jan 2020

Russia’s humanitarian Agency mulls plans to open offices in Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea

Russia’s humanitarian agency Rossotrudnichestvo, also known as “Russian House”, is planning to open offices in Burkina Faso and Guinea Equatorial amid growing presence of Moscow in the African continent. Pavel Shevtsov, the deputy head of the agency told State-run news agency Sputnik about plans to set up non-State Russian Houses in the two southern African […]

Ministers’ Council, chaired by King Mohammed VI, adopts 2025 appropriation bill

A Ministers’ Council, convened Friday in Rabat under the chairmanship of King Mohammed VI, debated and adopted the 2025 appropriation bill which seeks to boost social cohesion, enhance economic sovereignty, and to achieve a strong economic recovery, with a growth rate of 4.6% in 2025, and a limited inflation rate at 2%. At the start […]

Ways Ahead for the Maghreb Regional Integration: Lessons Learned from ASEAN

Despite the fact that the Maghreb countries constitute one region that is culturally, geographically and historically integrated, they have largely failed to achieve ‘functional integration’ particularly at the political and economic cooperation level. The “non-Maghreb” is a term coined by some experts referring to the enduring phenomenon of the Maghreb countries’ failure to boost their […]