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IMF and Mauritania Agree on New 42-Month Support Program

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Mauritanian authorities have concluded a technical agreement on a new 42-month financial support program following a recent mission to Nouakchott.   According to Mission Chief Félix Fischer, the arrangement is designed to “help Mauritania meet its financing needs, preserve its macroeconomic stability, and implement its National Development Plan.”   […]

COVID-19: Morocco to invest $1 million in scientific research

Morocco will invest $1 million in scientific research in areas related to the management of pandemic crises, with focus in the short term on the Coronavirus pandemic. The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research announced the adoption of a support program for multidisciplinary scientific research in areas related to pandemic crises, for which a […]

Tunisia detains two people in connection with Djerba attack

Tunisian authorities have arrested two people, a woman and a man, on the Island of Djerba; the theater of an attack on a Jewish synagogue in which six people including the attacker have died. The people, all of them Tunisians, in their twenties, were arrested by the National Guard forces on the Island as part […]