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Tunisia: Kais Saied lambasts rating agencies

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied Thursday laid into international rating agencies for using “biased criteria” in evaluating the country’s abilities to attract investments. This came during a meeting with the President of financial market council (CMF) Salah Sayel, a day after the country’s central bank (BCT) sounded the alarm over the waning of foreign reserves, the […]

Iraq: War with ISIS could take more than 3 years

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has stated that the restructuration of the Iraqi army could take three years to make it effective after corruption and ghost lists where discovered when the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) started its offensive last year. He didn’t say how long it will take to defeat ISIS although U.S […]

Opening of Kenyan embassy in Rabat, new chapter in 60 years of bilateral ties

Kenya and Morocco have opened a new chapter in their six-decades long bilateral ties with the opening of a Kenyan embassy in Rabat. Potential for bilateral ties at the economic, commercial and political levels is yet to be unlocked. The opening of the embassy was described by visiting Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi and his Moroccan […]