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Morocco’s Central Bank Holds Interest Rate at 2.25%, Sees Growth at 5% in 2025

Morocco’s central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 2.25% on Tuesday, citing contained inflation and steady economic recovery, while projecting growth to reach 5% in 2025 before easing to an average of 4.5% in 2026 and 2027. Bank Al-Maghrib’s board, meeting for its fourth quarterly session of the year, said agricultural output is […]

Algeria fears Tuareg independence spill over

As the Tuaregs brace for a new war to liberate the Azawad territory in what came to be called northern Mali, Algeria is watching closely, fearing a spill over into its own large and impoverished Tuareg community. The Tuaregs sit on significant oil and gas reserves in Algeria’s south and their territories remain the least […]

More & more voices decry appalling situation in Tindouf camps

Experts, journalists and civil society activists continue to decry the appalling situation of the population sequestered in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps in Algeria.   On Saturday, it was from Dakhla that Spanish political expert Pedro Ignacio Altamirano called for “the urgent opening of a humanitarian corridor” in order to allow the populations in captivity in […]