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Morocco to raise social protection, health and education budgets in 2025

The Moroccan government has elaborated a 2025 budget that bolsters spending on social protection as well as on the health and education reform, finance minister Nadia Fettah Alaoui said. The government will press ahead with the generalization of mandatory health coverage, financial assistance to needy families, and will launch the generalization of the pension system, […]

Sudan Poverty Rate Nears 70% as War Deepens Humanitarian Collapse

Around seven in ten people in Sudan are now living in poverty, according to the United Nations Development Programme, nearly doubling from about 38% before the conflict began three years ago. UNDP’s Sudan representative Luca Renda said the estimates are based on a poverty line of roughly $4 per day, with at least a quarter […]

Libya: GNC ready to join Geneva talks if UN incorporates its amendments to draft

The Tripoli-based General National Congress announced Monday it may make a U-turn in order to participate in the Geneva round if UNMIL chief Bernardino Leon agrees to amend the draft initialed by the House of Representatives, the internationally-recognized parliament sitting in Tobruk and elected on 25 June 2014, and other Libyan political forces. The announcement […]