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Tunisia: Powerful UGTT slams government for selling state-run companies in deal with IMF

Noureddine Taboubi, the Secretary General of Tunisia’s powerful labor union UGTT, Monday laid into the government of President Kais Saied for succumbing to the International Monetary Fund and pledging to relinquish control of some state-run companies, including a bank and a factory. The government “recently made a commitment to the International Monetary Fund to sell […]

Morocco Welcomes UNSC Resolution 2414 Renewing MINURSO Mandate

Morocco welcomed resolution 2414 by the UN security council renewing the mandate of the MINURSO for six months and urging the polisairo to withdraw from the buffer strip, said Morocco’s Ambassador Omar Hilale. “The Security Council resolution strengthens Morocco’s position and resolve in responding to recent Polisario provocations east of the security wall and in […]

EU planning new military-civilian operation mission in West Africa — report

Despite setbacks from military coups in Mali and Niger, the European Union is planning to launch a new military-civilian mission in Africa in the fall, whose aim is to prevent instability triggered by jihadi groups, a German newspaper has reported. EU member states have agreed to launch the mission in the Gulf of Guinea in […]