The IMF urged African and other emerging economies to develop domestic financial markets to reduce reliance on volatile external borrowing. In its April 2025 Global Financial Stability Report, the IMF warns that high real interest rates globally have made external financing more expensive and less accessible, especially for frontier markets in Africa. Tunisia was identified […]
An “ice break meeting,” thus South African paper, the Daily Maverick, described the talks between King Mohammed VI and President Jacob Zuma on the sidelines of the 5th AU-EU Summit in Abidjan. The paper recalls that the two heavy weights of Africa have given each other the cold shoulder against the backdrop of Pretoria’s stand […]
The Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps, located in southern Algeria, are a time bomb threatening the security and stability of the whole region, said Ivory Coast newspaper ‘Le Mandat’. In a story published Thursday on the growing terrorist threats in the Sahel-Sahara, the daily said the region is already facing serious challenges, namely terrorism which claimed hundreds […]
