A senior US counterterrorism official has raised alarms about the increasing threat posed by global jihadist groups, warning that they are, for example, expanding their activities from Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso into Benin and Togo, which had once had little exposure to jihadi threats. Speaking at a recent Washington conference, Sebastian Gorka noted that […]
The Denmark-based global engineering company FLSmidth will participate in the construction of a new cement plant in the region of El Jadida under a subcontracting deal with the Moroccan company TEKCIM. Tekcim had won the tender to build the MAD 2.6 billion ($274 million) cement plant in Ouled Ghanem in the province of El Jadida, […]
Tunisia’s southerners are complaining of being neglected by the government after the Arab Spring due to the state of the once vibrant tourism sector in the region. They blamed the lack of tourists in the area on the ever frequent cancelations of international and local flights. The government is accused of only interested in marketing […]
