Moroccan FM Nasser Bourita

Morocco launches new labor metrics, flags weak female participation and youth unemployment

Morocco’s High Commission for Planning (HCP), the national statistics agency, published the first results of its new labor force survey, highlighting low workforce participation, stark gender disparities and persistent youth unemployment under a methodology aligned with International Labor Organization standards. The new framework introduces stricter definitions that prevent comparisons with earlier data. Employment is now […]

Tunisia: President accuses unnamed parties for plotting his removal & assassination

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied Tuesday finger-pointed unspecified parties in the North African country that he believes attempted to remove him from power and even assassinate him. Speaking at a meeting with Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and several other former Premiers as part of the build-up to a national dialogue aiming at finding solutions to the […]

China woos Ethiopia, pledging food, trade, investments for Horn of Africa

While China’s global competition has been a well-known fact, Beijing now signals an expansion of its ambitions in the Horn of Africa, as evidenced by Ethiopia’s recent acknowledgement that China has become the East African nation’s leading source of foreign direct investment, largest trading partner, and development financier. China plans to send more emergency food […]