Morocco said its economy will grow by 2.9% in 2019 after 3% in 2018 as the economy continues to be affected by agricultural output, according to finance minister Mohamed Benchaaboun. Rainfall was about 23% less this year compared with 2018, so cereals yield was down 50% compared to a year earlier further deepening the trade […]
The Algerian Parliament will elect on Tuesday an Interim President after longtime ruler Abdelaziz Bouteflika stepped down last week. The Tuesday meeting will be headed by Abdelkader Bensalah, the current chairman of the upper house, state-run APS news agency said. Per the constitution, the two chambers of the assembly will formally confirm vacancy of the […]
Two journalists added to scores of colleagues and people who have been arrested for expressing dissent, in a trend that worries rights defenders. After Zied El Heni was detained pending his trial, Al Jazeera journalist Samir Sassi was arrested by an anti-terrorism unit of the national guard, the Tunisian Journalism Union said. Security forces took […]
