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Algeria- 2016 budget: Finance Minister calls for vigilance

A day after Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal stated that the economy was going through a difficult juncture and stressed the need to adopt a long term growth vision, Finance Minister Abderrahmane Benkhalfa told the parliament that taxes and import duties could be increased and energy subsidies could be removed and that vigilance is required in […]

Libya’s Oil minister renews suspension of NOC chairman

Libya’s Oil Minister has suspended for the second time the chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) and referred him for administrative investigation less than a month after Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah defused the crisis between the two institutions. NOC boss Mustafa Sanalla, under a decree (50/2021) issued by the oil ministry held by Mohamed […]

Education as a Priority for Future EU-Maghreb Cooperation

When President Barack Obama, in a speech in Cairo University in 2009, pointed to education and innovation as being the mechanisms of progress in the 21st century, these ideas must have resonated in capital cities across North Africa. Although different countries in the region have made various efforts to improve education and innovation and create […]