Libya: Kobler Urges Security Council to Sideline Process Spoilers

UNSMIL Chief Martin Kobler Tuesday urged the UN Security Council to get rid of the spoilers of the peace and unity process if the UN wants Libya to move on and give hope to 2.4 million people tangled in humanitarian crisis. “Both in eastern and western Libya, there are those who are committed to do […]

Morocco to redirect IMF-World Bank annual meetings equipment to quake-hit areas

Morocco will use the material deployed during the IMF-World Bank meetings to equip schools in the quake-stricken areas, finance ministry official and coordinator of the meeting’s logistics Mohamed Khamoudi said. The event drew 12,000 participants in a covered area of some 23 hectares in Morocco’s tourist hub Marrakech. The education ministry said it was already […]

President Trump hits Algerian & Tunisian regimes with higher tariffs

President Donald Trump has slapped the Algerian and Tunisian regimes with higher tariffs reaching respectively at least 30% and 25% and warned them that any reprisals would draw tougher counter-measures. In separate letters sent to Presidents Abdelmajid Tebboune of Algeria and Kais Saied of Tunisia, Trump notified them that the new higher tariffs take effect […]