Rabbi Aharon Monsonego

Fathi Bashagha’s administration approves $20-bn draft budget

The cabinet of Fathi Bashagha; one of Libya’s current two Prime Ministers, has approved a draft budget of nearly 95 billion Libyan dinars ($20 billion) for 2022. “The draft budget for the fiscal year 2022 was presented, discussed, and delivered during a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha on Thursday,” Minister of planning and […]

Algerian regime kidnaps political opponent Fethi Ghares

After silencing dissent, sending scores of political opponents to jail or forcing them into exile, the Algerian regime has stepped up its crackdown with the kidnapping of opposition figure and leader of Algeria’s communist party MDS Fethi Ghares. Ghares’ wife, Messaouda Chaballah, said that agents in plainclothes took him from his home, and that his […]

Africa’s human capital, cities and services to rekindle continent’s economies — MGI report

African governments will need to ramp up investments in digitization, infrastructure, service industry and also to develop talent, and to foster regional collaboration, as a way to improve and increase the productivity of all sectors, which will in turn power Africa’s economic growth going forward, according to a new report by the McKinsey Global Institute […]