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Tunisia: 26% decrease in number of tourists this year

Tunisian Minister of tourism and handicrafts told Lawmakers Wednesday that the total number of tourist arrivals has decreased by 26% over the January-November period as compared to the same period last year. Salma Elloumi Rekik said about 4.8 million tourists visited Tunisia this year; recording a 26% drop. She however sounded positive as she said […]

Guinea returns to OMVS three months after walkout

Guinea has returned to Organization pour la Mise en Valeur du Fleuve Sénégal (OMVS), a regional bloc for the development of Senegal River that including Mali, Mauritania and Senegal, after suspending its membership in July 2023, in protest to the neglect of its strategic interests. The country’s interim Prime Minister Bernard Goumou attended the online […]

Morocco’s 2020 budget to bolster purchasing power of poor social categories

Morocco’s 2020 draft budget provides for a series of measures to improve the purchasing power of the poor, increases funding for social services and augments spending to back the reforms of the health and education sectors. The document, shared widely on Moroccan media ahead of its submission to Parliament’s deliberations, allocates 26 billion dirhams for […]