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Morocco government seeks parliament approval for additional budget funding

The Moroccan government needs to increase its 2024 budget by 14 billion dirhams ($1.4 billion) to meet expenditures linked to subsidizing electricity prices and wage hikes, minister delegate in charge of the budget Fouzi Lekjaa said. In a presentation at the finance committee in parliament, Lekjaa recalled that the government has approved a decree to […]

Tunisia’s powerful UGTT union to stage strike tomark 2011 revolution anniversary

Eight years after the popular uprising that ousted President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisian are back to the streets again as the government and its powerful workers’ union have failed to reach a deal to raise the wages for about 670,000 civil servants. Although praised for its relatively peaceful transition to democracy, Tunisia is still […]

Mail & Guardian: Pretoria weighing economic & political risks of U.S. designation of Polisario terrorist organization

The American designation of the Polisario a foreign terrorist organization will have serious implications for South Africa, warned South-African newspaper Mail & Guardian. Such a designation will deprive the separatist group of its traditional state supporters namely Algeria and South Africa, said the daily in a recent Op-Ed authored by Michael Walsh, senior fellow at […]