A court in Tunisia sentenced former President Moncef Marzouki to four years in prison in absentia for working against the interests of the North African country. Marzouki, who has been outside the country for several months, has been subject to an arrest warrant issued against him in early November following his indictment for treason, on […]
Interpol has announced the success of a large-scale operation aimed at rooting out illegal mining across several West African nations. During the coordinated raids in Burkina Faso, Gambia, Guinea, and Senegal, law enforcement officials arrested 200 suspects and confiscated a range of harmful chemicals, explosives, and narcotics. According to Interpol, the operation—carried out between July […]
Morocco’s fertilizers and phosphates giant OCP criticized the decision by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) to increase customs duty on Moroccan fertilizers from 14.21% to 16.81%. This new rate, announced after a review of the countervailing duty (CVD), applies retroactively as the final tariff rate for our 2022 imports into the United States, OCP […]
