Libya: Dinar collapses highlighting ailing economy

The Libyan Dinar has plummeted further over the week-end against foreign currencies on the black market now appearing as the only available FOREX market for most Libyans desiring to buy foreign currency owing to lack of central regulatory body. The Libyan Dinar in Tripoli is trading much lower as the one Libyan Dinar is trading […]

Morocco’s Federation of Employers Elects Salah Eddine Mezouar new President

Former Finance and former Foreign Minister Salah Eddine Mezouar was elected new President of the Federation of Morocco’s employers (CGEM) succeeding Meriem Bensaleh. Mezouar won by a landslide majority of 5,173 out of the 6635 casted votes after a heated electoral campaign in which he ran against Hakim Marrakchi. In a statement to the press […]

Mali: Former President Amadou Toumani Touré passed away

Former Malian President Amadou Toumani Touré (“ATT”), who ruled the country from 2002 to 2012 before being overthrown in a military coup, died during the night of Monday 9 to Tuesday 10 November in Turkey, at the age of 72, a relative and a doctor reported.   “Amadou Toumani Touré died during the night of […]