Spanish Foreign & Defense Ministers

Iranian FM Visiting North Africa

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is expected this Monday in Tunis, first leg of a North African tour that will also lead him to Algiers to discuss ways of enhancing further cooperation ties with Maghreban countries. This is the third international tour of Mr Zarif after the conclusion of the nuclear deal in the […]

Morocco: Social, economic impacts of Khemisset potash project unveiled

The planned potash project in Khemisset (Northern Morocco) will create 2,385 direct and indirect jobs, and will increase the local GDP per capita by an estimated 40 pc. The figures were revealed by the UK fertilizer group Emmerson Plc, the Moroccan focused potash development company, when unveiling the findings of a socio-economic study of the […]

Algeria cracks down on labor unions

The Algerian government, the civilian façade of the military regime, has ordered the prohibition of strikes by all labor unions in the latest blow to civil liberties in the country. Prime minister Aïmene Benabderrahmane has made public an anti-constitutional decree that bans striking across the public sector and the tiny private sector in the state-dominated […]