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African teachers, medics suffer wage cuts due to debt servicing

Severe austerity measures imposed by international financial institutions on some of the poorest African countries led to public spending cuts, which affected the wages of teachers and health workers in particular, ActionAid said. Teachers across Africa are bearing the brunt of austerity, losing up to 50% of their real income over five years, while nearly […]

Morocco: Tanger-Med Police foil psychotropic trafficking

Moroccan security services foiled on Saturday morning at Tanger-Med Port an international drugs and psychotropic substances trafficking attempt, seizing 155,703 Ecstasy tablets concealed in an international transport truck coming from a European country, the Directorate General of National Security (DGSN) said in a press release. According to initial findings of the investigation, border control and […]

Morocco’s Central Bank keeps rates unchanged, expects growth to reach 2.9 % in 2023 & 3.2 % in 2024

Morocco’s central bank has decided to keep its key rate unchanged at 3 percent due to the high degree of uncertainty surrounding the international developments and the domestic context in the aftermath of the earthquake that hit the country on Sept.08. The decision was made Tuesday by the Board of Bank Al-Maghrib after discussing local […]