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Morocco’s New Currency Rules Redefine What Amounts Travelers Can Take Abroad

A revised set of foreign exchange rules effective since early 2026 has reshaped what Moroccan travelers, businesses and students can take abroad, introducing new caps, mandatory paperwork and repatriation deadlines under the General Instruction on Foreign Exchange Operations, or IGOC, reports leseco.ma news outlet. For business travel, allocations are now indexed to corporate tax paid, […]

Militants escalate violence in Sahel, threatening coastal West African nations, warns report

Militant Islamist violence continues to escalate in the Sahel, shifting southward and westward to increasingly threaten security of coastal West African nations, according to a new report by Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS). Countries like Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger remain at the epicenter of this violent surge, with fatalities and militant activity hitting […]

SADC leaders slammed for failing to assist troubled Mozambique

Experts and analysts have piled criticism on the leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for “adding fuel to Mozambican fire” and for “failing the people of Mozambique” that has been for weeks engulfed in post-election violence. Zimbabwe’s president Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is also chair of SADC, has said the regional bloc is ready […]