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Morocco-KSA: Cosumar’s new sugar refinery in Yanbu to start production in March

Morocco’s first sugar refinery Cosumar announced that production in its new refinery in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, will start in March this year. The refinery in Yanbu is scheduled to start operating in March 2020, Cosumar group CEO Mohamed Fikrat told Reuters. The Yanbu refinery, with a nominal capacity of 850,000 tons of high quality white […]

Tunisia on brink of default as government drags feet on reforms

Tunisia is now the African country facing the highest default risk as the government remains reluctant to implement reforms to be eligible for an IMF package of $2 billion. With one of the world’s highest wage bills in terms of percentage to GDP, Tunisia under autocratic president Kais Saied, is unwilling to implement painful reforms […]

Morocco at the helm of Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions

The President of Morocco’s National Human Rights Council (CNDH), Amina Bouayach, has been unanimously elected as the new chairperson of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI). The election took place during GANHRI’s General Assembly on Tuesday in Geneva, on the sidelines of the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council. Vladen […]