Morocco’s long-awaited housing program for the middle class is about to be launched. The country’s housing minister, Nabil Benabdallah, announce that the new program wouuld give thousands of Moroccan families an access to affordable and decent housing. The official plan is to build about 20,000 houses by the end of 2016, and the government has […]
Following a recent string of military coups, retaliatory sanctions, and withdrawal of its member states, it became clear that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) lacks authority, legitimacy, and effective sanction and intervention instruments, and thus, as observers warn, it must either reform or decline. Once considered Africa’s most institutionally developed regional organization, […]
The detention of Saâd Bouakba, one of Algeria’s most respected journalists, marks a new chapter in the country’s escalating campaign against independent voices. Bouakba, 79, was placed in pre-trial detention on Nov 27, after being accused of defamation and “insulting historical symbols of the state,” which he denied. The charges have been described as bogus […]
