Coronavirus: 5.1 million Moroccan households receive financial assistance

The number of households that received financial aid from the Special Fund for the Covid-19 management has reached 5.1 million, said Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit on Wednesday at a parliamentary hearing. Stipends have been distributed to 800,000 people affiliated to National social security fund (CNSS), 2.3 million households having RAMED health card (medical assistance program […]

Libya Mired in Chaos Seven Years after Gadhafi’s Death

Libya remains in turmoil, battered by infighting between heavily armed militias and a political crisis that has divided the country. The initial euphoria is a distant memory as little have changed since the fall of Moammar Gaddafi’s dictatorship. A 2015 UN-backed deal to set up the unity government in Tripoli was meant to end the […]

Libya: Maiteeq occupies PM’s office, Thinni continues mandate

Libya’s fifth Prime Minster Ahmed Maiteeq has held his first cabinet meeting after police officers helped him take over the building housing his office.  He read out a message to the Libyan populace on television. Meanwhile outgoing Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni has not stepped down from power but has moved to another government building. Libya […]