Senegal’s Economic Tightrope: New President Faces Fiscal Challenges

Senegal’s new president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, is walking a financial tightrope. Just five months into the job, he has called for snap elections on November 17, dissolving the opposition-led parliament. But this political shake-up could not come at a trickier time for the economy. The numbers are not looking great. Economic growth has slowed to […]

Morocco launches new labor metrics, flags weak female participation and youth unemployment

Morocco’s High Commission for Planning (HCP), the national statistics agency, published the first results of its new labor force survey, highlighting low workforce participation, stark gender disparities and persistent youth unemployment under a methodology aligned with International Labor Organization standards. The new framework introduces stricter definitions that prevent comparisons with earlier data. Employment is now […]

Mother of jailed UK-Egyptian vows to maintain hunger strike

Laila Soueif, mother of Egyptian-British blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has been detained in Egypt for more than five years, is continuing her hunger strike. Laila Soueif, 68, who has not eaten for 59 days, has urged British Foreign Minister David Lammy to take action to secure her son’s release. The blogger was arrested in […]