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AfDB Lends Morocco €199 Mln for Climate Resilient Crops

The African Development Bank has approved a €199 million loan to finance Morocco’s competitive & resilient cereal development program to help boost food security, nutrition, and crops resilience across Africa. The program will help reduce Morocco’s cereal imports, focusing on improving productivity and the resilience of cereal production to climate change. It also provides for […]

African Union: Fathallah Sijilmassi, 1st Director General of AU Commission

Moroccan diplomat Fathallah Sijilmassi has become the first Director General of the African Union Commission, a new position set up by the AU summit held in Addis Ababa in 2018. Sijlimassi was picked up for the job after undergoing a rigorous selection process based on transparence and merit. His new mission includes the coordination between […]

HRW Urges Algeria to Improve the ٍٍState of Public Freedoms

Human Rights Watch urged Algerian authorities to cease criminal prosecutions against bloggers, journalists and media figures for peaceful speech, using articles in the penal code criminalizing “offending the president,” “insulting state officials” or “denigrating Islam.” The International Human Rights Watchdog called on Algeria to accept key recommendations included in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) concerning […]