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Unemployed Youth Threaten to Put End to Own Lives in Algeria’s Boiling South

Dozen disenchanted youths in the southern Algerian city of Ouargla made headlines when they threatened to set themselves on fire following the example of Tunisia’s Mohamed Bouazizi. The deplorable living conditions in Ouargla and other oil and gas producing regions in southern Algeria stand in stark contrast to the well-off north of the country where […]

FDI Flow up 43.6% in 2021 – Office des Changes Report

The net flow of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) recorded a 43.6% increase to more than 19.4 billion dirhams at the end of December 2021 compared to a year earlier, the Office des Changes (exchange office) said in its annual report on the balance of payments and the international investment position of Morocco for the year […]

Tunisia: Managing the Next Phase

October 23rd marks the first anniversary of the election of Tunisia’s National Constituent Assembly; the first election since the popular insurrection that brought down the government of President Zine al-Abdine Ben Ali in January 2011and set off the powerful series of events elsewhere in the region that became known as the Arab Spring. The anniversary […]