AfDB launches record breaking $3 billion “Fight COVID-19” Social Bond

As the Covid-19 outbreak is spreading quickly in Africa with nearly 3,000 infected people across 45 countries, placing strain on already fragile health systems, and dangerously threatening the continent’s economy, the African Development Bank Group is moving to provide flexible responses aimed at lessening the severe economic and social impact of this pandemic on its […]

Morocco’s education law stalls due to controversy over French

Parliamentary vote for a long-awaited for law on education reform has stalled once again as the majority Islamist party refuses to vote in favor of some of the provisions of the new text notably the introduction of French as a language of teaching scientific subjects. The education Minister Said Amzazi insists on using French as […]

Morocco: Government to raise medics’ wages after showdown with unions

The Moroccan government plans to increase the salaries of nurses and technicians in public hospitals by 1000 dirhams, following recurrent strikes and protests. The salary hike was announced by government spokesman, who said health reform was at the heart of government priorities. His words did little to calm down angry unions representing nurses and health […]