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South Sudan gets $600 million from China to pay civil servants

The government of South Sudan has received around $600 million from the Chinese government to pay outstanding civil servants’ salaries. South Sudan News Agency, quoting government sources, said the new loan aims to cover salaries payment. The move comes weeks after many South Sudanese deputies boycotted the presentation of the 2019-2020 budget, rising against the […]

Libya: Haftar chides UN envoy for taking side in the conflict

Khalifar Haftar, commander of the east-based forces opposed to the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) has accused the UN envoy trying to fix the political crisis in the North African country of being “biased” in his mission. “Salame is making irresponsible statements,” Haftar told French newspaper Journal de Dimanche in an interview published […]

Morocco: Tanger-Med’s success story highlighted at WB-IMF Annual Meetings

The success story of Tanger Med, considered today as the first port infrastructure in the Mediterranean and Africa, was highlighted at the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund held in Washington. Speaking at a panel focused on the “contribution of trade in the post-Covid recovery”, Director General of the Tanger-Med […]