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COVID-19: Morocco launches rescue plan for tourism sector

Morocco’s battered tourism sector will receive a lifeline provided operators retain 80% of jobs, according to a public-private deal covering 2020-2022. The plan will help restore 2019 levels in two years through direct aid to the sector including through maintaining social support measures. This means the employees who had to stop working because of Covid-19 […]

Noose Tightens on Polisario as Morocco joins AU’s Peace & Security Council

The return of Morocco to the African Union and its recent membership in the pan-African organization’s most important body, the Peace and Security Council, is vindicating the fears of the Polisario separatists and their mentor, Algeria. As the noose tightens around the Polisario in the Tindouf camps, where combustible factors of unrest, corruption and oppression […]

EU to release €300m to help Tunisia fight Coronavirus pandemic

The European Union will release €300 million on June 1 to assist Tunisia in its fight against the global pandemic that has caused the death of 12,451 in the North African country. Marcus Cornaro, the envoy of the EU commission to Tunisia informed Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi of the release of the funds, the first […]