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Morocco emerges as top market for Italian investments, Italian export credit agency says

Morocco has risen to the forefront of global destinations for Italian exporters and investors, according to a recently released report by Italy’s export credit agency SACE, which identifies the country as one of the most attractive markets among nearly 200 surveyed. SACE’s updated metrics place Morocco at 78/100 on the export opportunity index and 68/100 […]

Algeria: UN calls for impartial, rapid investigations in claims of sexual abuse, torture against Hirak activists

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has officially called on the Algerian authorities to conduct “prompt and impartial investigations” into the allegations of torture and sexual abuse suffered by several inmates arrested during the Hirak who openly denounced the ill-treatment inflicted on them by the security services while in police custody. Rupert Colville, […]

Mauritania Tightens Anti-slavery law

Mauritanian Parliament has passed a new anti-slavery law which criminalizes “10 forms of slavery”, including forced marriage and other controversial social practices such as handing a woman over to another man without her consent after the death of her husband. Mauritania abolished slavery in 1981, but human rights activists say the practice is still alive. […]