Morocco and the Netherlands have been unanimously elected co-chairs of the Global Counter Terrorism Forum (GCTF) taking over from the US and Turkey which had chaired the forum set up in 2011. The election took place during the GCTF Coordination Committee 7th session held in Qatar’s capital Doha last week. The election of Morocco as […]
Morocco has received in 2019 loans from the African Development Bank (AfDB) worth 3 billion dollars funding 35 projects, bringing total loans by the African development finance institution to 10 billion dollars since the 1970s. AfDB’s funding makes Morocco on top of the list of beneficiaries of loans which covered areas such as energy, transport, […]
As it heeds straight towards the depletion of its oil-money coffers, Algeria imposed austerity measures, cutting subsidies and introducing taxes, while maintaining lavish spending on armament unchanged. Algeria spent $1.686 billion on defense that is a 0.4% increase compared to last year, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) said in its latest report on global […]
