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Monitoring Committee to Evaluate Coronavirus Impact on Moroccan Economy

Just after the high commission for planning Ahmed Lahlimi told Reuters and Bloomberg that Morocco’s economic growth could sink to as low as 2% in 2020 from a previous estimate of f 3.5%, the Ministry of Economy & Finance announced, on Wednesday, the setting-up of an Economic Monitoring Committee that will assess the impact of […]

Nigeria elections: ‘nervous mood’ in Lagos as senate candidate killed ahead of the vote

Oyibo Chukwu, a senatorial candidate from the opposition Labor Party, has been killed by unknown gunmen in an attack on his convoy in southeastern Enugu State ahead of the national election in Nigeria. Chukwu’s convoy was ambushed Wednesday night as he was traveling back from a campaign event, according to police and a party official. […]

Algeria: Reuters reporter expelled for covering Friday demonstrations

Algerian authorities have expelled Reuters’s reporter Saturday for covering a demonstration against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and his regime staged by tens of thousands of Algerians. The reporter, Tarek Amara from Tunisia was detained and then flown to neighboring Tunisia after he covered the March 29 demonstration; one of the protests regularly staged since February 22 […]