Rising costs of road freight across West Africa are threatening to derail the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), exporters and trade experts warn, as unofficial fees and bureaucratic bottlenecks mount along key trade corridors. A recent case study by the West African Association for Cross-Border Trade (WACTAF) reveals that transporting a truckload of goods […]
UN Women, a UN agency dedicated to gender equality and women’s empowerment, has hailed Morocco’s decisions seeking to close gender gap, saying the North African Kingdom is taking an important step towards achieving gender equality with the adoption of Laws N°19-20 and N°5-96 governing SMEs and Corporations By establishing a 30% progressive quota for women […]
Defense ministers and army chiefs of staff of Arab countries met lately in Cairo to discuss the project of setting up a joint military force to be deployed to defend common interest and ward off terror threats. The idea to create a joint Arab army came up after Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies formed […]
