New York-based credit rating agency, Moody’s, Tuesday downgraded Tunisia’s long-term foreign-currency and local-currency issuer ratings to B3 from B2 with negative outlook. “Moody’s has also downgraded the Central Bank of Tunisia’s senior unsecured rating to B3 from B2 and the senior unsecured shelf rating to (P)B3 from (P)B2, and maintained the negative outlook. The […]
Nearly a week after Algeria’s show election, the electoral committee still has not offered accurate figures on the results and turnout. The elections were marked by a large-scale indifference of the 24.5 million Algerian registered voters, with only 5 million- mostly those who benefit from state rent- casting ballots. Authorities said Tebboune won by 94%. […]
Three women made headlines in Morocco after their electoral win becoming mayors of Morocco’s key cities of Rabat, Casablanca and Marrakech. In Marrakech, PAM leader Fatima Zahra Mansouri is set to have another term as mayor of Morocco’s first city in terms of tourist arrivals. She already took this job from 2009 to 2015. Nabila […]
