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Algeria proceeds to urgent spending cuts to delay bankruptcy

Time and money are running out for Algeria as it eats into its foreign reserves trying to avert the inevitable: bankruptcy. The country’s Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad has ordered an urgent spending cut to try to offset falling income from oil and gas.     An unexpected rise in spending in 2020 due to the […]

Morocco closes schools, takes action to avert Covid-19 outbreak

Morocco will suspended starting from Monday all classes from the pre-school level to higher education as well as vocational training institutions, the education ministry said. Schools have to apply distance learning as the suspension of classes is not to be understood as an exceptional holiday but rather a precautionary measure to avert the spread of […]

Football: Africa Cup of Nations Rescheduled to 2022

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has decided to postpone the next Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) to January 2022 due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The 33rd CAN was initially scheduled to be held in Cameroon between June & July 2021, but in January 2020, the African football governing body decided to […]