Morocco’s central bank has, for the first time, quantified the banking channel through which public financing crowds out credit to private companies. In its 2025 annual report, based on data spanning 2001 to 2025, Bank Al-Maghrib estimates that a one-point-of-GDP increase in public assets held by banks is associated, over the long term, with a […]
The opposition faction in South Sudan, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army-in-Opposition (SPLM/A-IO), has firmly rejected a directive from the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) requiring its forces to gather in government-controlled territories. This rebuke was issued on Tuesday April 8 by Lam Paul Gabriel, the spokesperson for the opposition group, which is led by […]
Analysis of the data recorder of ill-fated EgyptAir flight MS 804, which crashed last month shows there was smoke in aircraft before it hit the sea, investigation commission told media on Wednesday. “Recorded data is showing a consistency with ACARS messages (the plane’s automated reporting system) of lavatory smoke and avionics smoke,” The Egypt-led commission […]
