Three British holidaymakers still unaccounted for after fire caught boat in Red Sea

Three British tourists went missing Sunday after a fire broke out in their yacht during a trip near the Egyptian Red Sea resort town of Marsa Alam. A yacht dubbed “Hurricane”, Ahram Online reports, caught fire on Sunday during a trip scheduled for 6-11 June in the Fuston area, about 25 km north of Marsa […]

West Africa’s ‘Brexit’: Mali stays with regional currency zone, Burkina Faso weighs exit

Mali has said it has no intentions of leaving West Africa’s currency zone, while Burkina Faso has hinted at its possible withdrawal after they, along with Niger, announced their departure from the region’s political bloc ECOWAS as a form of protest. In a blow to hard-fought regional integration, late January, the military governments of Burkina […]

Morocco, Turkey sign MoU on competition policies

Turkey and Morocco have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), vowing to establish an advanced partnership to promote cooperation in the field of competition policies and enforcement of competition laws in force in both countries, and to meet the challenges of “competition on markets.”   Morocco’s Competition Council President Driss Guerraoui and his Turkish counterpart […]