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FC Injects $50 Million in Moroccan Home Builder Group

The International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, announced it is investing $50 million in Alliances Group, a leading Moroccan home builder, “to increase the supply of quality affordable housing, create jobs, and spark broader economic development.” The investment consists in the purchase of 3% of the Moroccan group’s shares for $25 […]

Tunisia in tumultuous economic and political waters

Tunisia faces an economic and a political crisis that are unfolding, leaving very short deadlines for the current leadership to come up with solutions that would spare the Tunisian people scenarios of its eastern and western neighbors. Surrounded by unstable Libya in the east and authoritarian Algerian in the east, Tunisia is navigating uncharted waters […]

UK: London may soon launch strikes against ISIS, official says

Prime Minister David Cameron is planning to ask lawmakers to consider launching attacks or joining the international coalition against the Islamic State group in Syria after the extremist group killed 38 people including 30 Britons last week in Sousse, Tunisia, said the Prime Minister’s spokeswoman on Thursday Even though public opinion has been largely against […]