EBRD new director for Morocco Antoine Salle de Chou

Tunisia: Kais Saied opposes agreement with IMF

Tunisia has been running for more than a year behind an IMF loan and its biggest partners, in particular the European Union, and the United States have been doing their utmost to get the loan, warning of the risks of the Tunisian economy collapsing, if ever. The IMF tied the loan to reforms that the […]

Hit by Low oil prices, Nigeria opts for borrowing; Algeria chooses to starve its people

The end of the era of expensive oil has put strains on the budgets of Nigeria and Algeria pushing the first to seek foreign borrowing while the latter adamantly sticks to zero borrowing policy at the expense of starving its population. Nigeria, which has a more diversified economy compared to Algeria, is knocking on the […]

Algeria-Europe gas pipeline postponed again

The desire to channel natural gas to European countries from Algeria has suffered another setback because the date of the rendezvous between parties to make a decision concerning the viability of the project is still being clouded with ambiguity following another delay. The project is a prospect of natural gas from Algeria being piped via […]