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World Bank commends Morocco’s Doing Business progress, calls for more growth

Despite Morocco’s significant progress on the Doing Business index, much remains to be done for Morocco to move from 2.8% growth expected this year to 6 or 7% in order to reduce unemployment, World Bank Vice President for MENA region Ferid Belhaj said. Morocco improved its ranking to 53rd position in the doing business index […]

Egypt: urging foreign investors public-private partnerships

After opening its doors to Arab tourists, Egypt has now turned onto the Public-Private Partnerships (PPP). It is inviting all foreign investors to increase their involvement in such partnerships especially those from Britain. The finance minister, Al-Morsi Hegazy, said it will help the investors “profit from promising opportunities.” The minister made these remarks shortly after […]

Libya: Rival governments agree on consensual national unity government

An agreement has been reached by Libya’s two rival governments barely 48hours after talks began in Geneva. An agenda geared towards a consensual national unity will be formed by the two governments to end the fighting that has forced more than a million away from their homes and left tens of thousands of people dead. […]