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Covid-19: Moroccan Economy Loses $ 2.9 Bln & 8.9 Pts of GDP in Q2

The global coronavirus epidemic will knock 8.9 points off of Morocco’s economic growth in the second quarter of 2020, says Morocco’s Statistics agency (HCP). In its updated forecast for first semester of 2020, le “Haut Commissariat au Plan” says Covid-19 will cost the country $2.9 billion in economic loss due to a sharp drop in […]

Leading opposition party in Côte d’Ivoire to hold congress on Dec. 22

Parti démocratique de Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI), Côte d’Ivoire’s main position party, will hold its national congress to elect a new leader on Dec. 22, four months after the death of Henri Konan Bédié, its longtime leader and former Head of State. The congress will take place in the native town of the founding father and […]

Swedish oil firm executives go on trial over war crimes in South Sudan

Two former executives at a Swedish oil company Lundin Oil are going on trial on Tuesday (5 September), with both defendants accused of complicity in war crimes in present-day South Sudan, with prosecutors saying both were complicit in atrocities by Sudanese army and militias between 1999 and 2003, which both flatly deny. Swiss national Alex […]