IFC new managing director Senegalese Makhtar Diop

African trade ministers urge US govt to ensure renewal of AGOA by end of 2024

African ministers of trade attending the 21st African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum held in Washington D.C. last week have urged the US government to do away with the AGOA’s annual reviews and expressed the importance of an expeditious renewal of the legislation by the end of 2024. With AGOA expiring in 14 months, […]

Tunisia: 10 people sentenced to 48 years in prison on terrorism charges

A court in capital Tunis Wednesday sentenced 10 people, including five women, to 48 years in prison after they were convicted for forming a terror group.   The defendants were arrested in 2017 in several governorates in the north of the country.   They admitted the formation of the terror cell and allegiance to the […]

Morocco’s CNESTEN, Hungarian Center poised to upgrade cooperation in nuclear energy

The Moroccan National Center for Energy, Nuclear Science and Technology (CNESTEN) and the Hungarian Energy Research Center have signed on Tuesday an agreement providing for strengthening cooperation between the two centers in the field of nuclear energy. The agreement translates the interest given by the two institutions to scientific and technical cooperation and their shared […]