Babacar Diop, Mayor of the Senegalese town of Thiès announced Sunday he will be a candidate for 2024 presidential elections for which incumbent Macky Sall is currently barred from. Diop made the announcement at the end of the congress of his Forces démocratiques du Sénégal [Democratic Forces of Senegal] also known as Guelwaars. The Philosophy […]
French interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve Thursday announced the arrest of three women allegedly connected to a car found with six gas canisters and suspected to plot a terror attack against a train station. “Those radicalized young women, aged 19, 23 and 39, were apparently preparing some new violent and more importantly eminent actions,” Cazeneuve said. […]
The long awaited launch of the flexible exchange rate system for the Dirham currency will start on January 15 after it was postponed for 5 months. The gradual Dirham float will start with an anchor of 2.5% in-stead of 0.3% currently, while fixing the Dirham exchange rate via a peg that is 60 percent weighted […]
