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Egypt: El-Sisi Endorses Second Phase of Tax Incentives to Strengthen Investor Confidence

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has endorsed the rollout of a second package of tax incentives aimed at rewarding compliant taxpayers and deepening trust between the State and the business community. During a high-level meeting on Sunday, November 30, with Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and Finance Minister Ahmed Kouchouk, the President reviewed the core elements of the […]

France: Opinion Divided over State Payment of Salah Abdeslam’s Lawyer

Increasing number of voices, including families of Paris attacks victims, have expressed their discontent over the payment by the State of a lawyer to assist Salah Abdeslam in the process of investigations. The suspect number one in the attacks is now in custody in France. Elisabeth Boissinot, mother of a 25-year-old young woman killed in […]

Chad’s gov’t breaks off defense cooperation agreement with France

Chad’s government is terminating a defense cooperation agreement with France, its former colonial ruler, with its top diplomat saying his country has “grown up” and now wants to fully assert its sovereignty. As Sahel nations, from Niger to Mali to Burkina Faso, have ousted French soldiers from their territories and moved closer to Russia, Chad […]