ECOWAS-leaders

Tunisia: Nabil Karoui admitted to hospital after hunger strike

Nabil Karoui, head of Tunisia’s largest party in the parliament and media mogul has been admitted to hospital early Tuesday after he began a hunger strike to protest his detention in prison since December. A video posted on his official Facebook page showed the founder of the Heart Tunisia party, which came second during last […]

Morocco, Mauritania poised to expand cooperation in electricity, renewable energy; envision an electric interconnection

Morocco and Mauritania are poised to expand their cooperation in the fields of electricity and renewable energy and to explore the establishment of an electric interconnection between the two countries under a memorandum of understanding signed in Rabat on Thursday. The MoU also provides for intensifying the exchange of expertise in electrical safety, implementing projects […]

Algeria-WB: Difficult to do business in Algeria

The World Bank Doing Business 2016 report categorizes Algeria among countries “hostile’’ to investment, placing the country at the 163rd rank out of 189 countries, with Singapore topping the rankings. Despite a myriad of efforts to stimulate economic revival following a plunge of the country’s economy due to the collapse of oil prices, Algeria is […]