AfDB to provide $350m to Egypt before end of 2023

Abdourahmane Diaw, the African Development Bank (AfDB) country manager for Egypt, has revealed the Abidjan-based lender will provide the North African country with $350 million in financing for public and private development projects before the end of 2023. The financing will go to the private sector via credit lines to loaning companies and bank and […]

Libya: Tripoli Warns Rome against IS-Planned Attacks in Milan

Tripoli-based Libyan authorities have warned their Italian counterparts against planned terror attacks by an Islamic State group’s local cell in Milan. The cell is reportedly sponsored by a veteran jihadist formerly deported by Rome. Forces aligned with the Tripoli-based Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) made, over the weekend, further advances into the city of […]

Morocco Falls Below Generational Replacement Rate as Fertility Drops to 1.97 Children Per Woman

Morocco’s fertility rate has fallen to 1.97 children per woman in 2024, dropping below the generational replacement threshold of 2.1 for the first time in the country’s demographic history, according to a study published by France’s Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques (INED). The finding marks a structural turning point: below the replacement level, the population renews […]