The 61-year-old independent candidate Kaïs Saïed won the second round of the Tunisian presidential election, held Sunday, with a landslide victory as he garnered 76.90% of the vote, becoming thus Tunisia’s new President. His rival, businessman Nabil Karoui, received only 23.1% of votes. Kaïss Saïd benefited from the “crucial” support of the Islamist “Ennahda” party […]
Morocco is expected to emerge as the fifth best performing economy in Africa this year despite adverse international economic juncture, says Forbes Middle East list 2021 drawn on basis of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank data. The IMF expects Morocco’s real GDP to grow by 4.5 pc this year, after a contraction […]
Algerians woke up to renewed queues on cooking oil and bread in 2022, two commodities that joined a list of long essential goods whose prices spiked under the impact of high inflation and import cuts. The queues indicate shortages coupled with a high inflation of basic products under the impact of a state policy to […]
