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Algeria: Former PM to head Bouteflika’s elections campaign team

Abdelmalek Sellal, the ex-Algerian Prime Minister, will head the campaign team of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika who has officially announced his plans to run for a fifth term in office Sunday. According to the state-run news agency APS, which also announced Bouteflika’s candidacy for a fifth five-year term in April’s elections, Sellal was appointed to the […]

Morocco-Africa trade: Average annual increase of 6.1% between 2009 and 2019

Trade between Morocco and the rest of Africa showed an average annual growth of 6.1% over the period 2009-2019, according to “Al Maliya”, the magazine of the Moroccan Ministry of Economy & Finance. The share of this trade in the Kingdom’s overall trade volume stood at 5.1% in 2019, according to data from the Foreign […]

Morocco: Arrest of two ISIS-affiliated suspects

Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ) arrested two suspects affiliated with ISIS on Tuesday.   A statement from the BCIJ, which works under the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), said that the suspects were active in Ait Melloul, a city in the suburban area of Agadir and Oulad Berhil in the Taroudant Province. […]