Rising global oil and butane gas prices, amplified by ongoing Middle East tensions, are once again forcing Morocco to confront a question it has long sidestepped: should the government and private operators use financial hedging instruments to shield consumers and public finances from commodity price volatility? Hedging — essentially a financial insurance mechanism — allows […]
Morocco has accepted to readmit the Sub-Saharan migrants who got over a border fence separating the Spanish occupied enclave of Ceuta. “The 116 sub-Saharan migrants who entered Spain via the Ceuta border illegally yesterday (Wednesday) have been sent back to Morocco,” the Ceuta prefecture said in a statement. The migrants were returned under a 1992 […]
With the political crisis deepening in Algeria wherein social anger is mounting and the economic situation is worsening, the struggle for power between the elite generals and the politicians is intensifying as the ailing president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 81, braces, for a controversial fifth term in office. Despite the military and security purge carried out lately […]
