Algeria’s visa move, a non-event in Morocco

Few days after Algeria re-introduced visa entry requirements on Moroccan passport holders, Morocco has not reacted to a decision that comes in a series of self-harming escalatory and provocative measures by a disillusioned Algerian military regime blinded by Morocco phobia. The Algerian foreign minister said the measure will have immediate effect and came following what […]

Morocco’s unemployment rate eases to 11.2%

Morocco’s unemployment rate dropped to 11.2% in the first half this year, compared with 12.8% a year earlier, the high commission for planning said. From June 2021 to June 2022, the Moroccan economy created 133,000 jobs as the country shakes off dust left by the pandemic which hit most productive sectors. The new jobs were […]

Egypt: Publisher of controversial Israeli novel sentenced to five years in prison

A court in Egypt upheld a five-year prison sentence against the head of an Egyptian publishing company for distributing an Arabic version of “The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel”, a book the military rejected arguing that it disseminates military secrets. Khaled Lotfi, on trial in a military court since last year, was handed the sentence […]