More than 25 years after its creation, the Maghreb Union, an economic bloc comprising Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya finds itself in a state of paralysis unable of tapping into its economic and trade potential, said the World Economic Forum (WEF) in a recent publication on the region. “The Maghreb, in Northern Africa, is […]
A Moroccan court delivered a one-year prison sentence to a journalist and her fiancé, found guilty of having premarital sex and unlawful abortion. Hajar Raissouni was arrested on August 31 along with her fiancé Amin Rifaat, as they left a doctor’s office in Rabat. The doctor and two others working at the clinic were also […]
Ethiopia has announced it is going to repatriate some 70,000 of its nationals who have been living in squalid conditions in Saudi Arabia, a third such program since 2018. The announcement was made last week in Addis Ababa, with the repatriation set to begin in early April, targeting some 70,000 “Ethiopians who are in a […]
