Morocco Mauritania trade

Tunisia’s PM rants at French documentary on poverty and dictatorship

Tunisia’s Prime Minister Ahmed Hachani seems to have made a trip to Paris specifically to protest against a French documentary that exposed Tunisia’s worsening poverty and dictatorship under the rule of Kais Saied. Speaking at a presser with his French Peer Attali, Hachani ranted at the documentary describing it as “an unfriendly act by our […]

Algeria: gearing up economic transformation

A top economic consultant and advisor of the Algerian government, Abdelhak Lamiri, has hinted that the government could be announcing economic reforms which could open the economy to foreign investors after the 2014 elections. In recent times, the government has taken several policies oriented towards liberalization. The current government is gearing up for an immense […]

Hamid Chabat: from union activist to leader of Morocco’s Istiqlal

Hamid Chabat, a former factory worker and mechanic , has been elected Secretary General of the Istiqlal party, one of the most powerful political parties in Morocco. Nothing  predestined this man, who started his career at the bottom of the ladder, to this spectacular rise except his boundless ambition that he started to kindle since […]