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New Survey Methodology Offers Fuller Picture of Morocco’s Improving Labor Market

Beyond the headline drop in unemployment to 9.5 percent, the first results of Morocco’s newly redesigned labor force survey point to a broader improvement across the job market, one that a revamped methodology now allows to be read through several complementary indicators rather than a single unemployment figure, according to an analysis published by Aujourd’hui […]

Sahara: EU reiterates call for maintaining ceasefire

The Polisario should abide by the UN brokered ceasefire agreement and the free flow of transborder traffic should be maintained unhindered, the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borell said. After Morocco intervened militarily in November to secure a border passage with Mauritania that has been blocked by Polisario fighters for three weeks, the Algeria-sponsored militia declared […]

Ex-Tunisian leader Moncef Marzouki handed four-year prison sentence for treason

A court in Tunisia sentenced former President Moncef Marzouki to four years in prison in absentia for working against the interests of the North African country. Marzouki, who has been outside the country for several months, has been subject to an arrest warrant issued against him in early November following his indictment for treason, on […]