United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced Friday the appointment of Alexander Ivanko of the Russian Federation as his new Special Representative for the Sahara and Head of the MINURSO. He succeeds Colin Stewart of Canada, whose mandate ends on October 31, 2021. Mr. Ivanko, who has served as Chief of Staff of MINURSO since 2009, […]
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global financial crime watchdog, has included Algeria in the list of money laundering & terrorism financing countries. The FATF has made the decision during its plenary meeting held lately in Paris with the participation of delegates from the FATF’s Global Network of over 200 jurisdictions and observers from […]
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has recently approved a €201,000 grant to Morocco, through its Technical Assistance Fund for Middle-Income Countries, with the objective of providing the government with technical assistance for studies on the design of dams, river development and inter-basin interconnection studies. The assistance, destined to the Directorate of Hydraulic Development of the […]
