King Mohammed VI inaugurates community medical Center in Fez march 2020

Morocco sets up national financial intelligence body to combat money-laundering & terrorism financing

The Moroccan government has approved the setting up of a National Financial Intelligence Authority to better combat money-laundering, terror financing and weapons proliferation.   The establishment of this new entity comes following the recommendations issued by the Middle-East & North Africa Financial Action Task Force which has called for upgrading the country’s financial intelligence unit […]

Outrage mounts over arrest of writer Boualem Sansal in Algiers

The Algerian regime has confirmed through its news agency the arbitrary arrest of Boualem Sansal, a renowned novelist with a critic of the military regime in Algiers. In a diatribe on the national news agency APS, the military regime showed its contempt for free writers such as Sansal whom it called “pseudo writer,” while describing […]

Egypt, IMF reach deal on policies and economic & structural reforms

Egypt has announced a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on policies and economic and structural reforms for the country’s new economic reform program, amid talks for a new loan program. Egyptian authorities announced the success of technical meetings held between an Egyptian delegation and the director and experts of the IMF, saying the […]