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Moroccan lower house approves 2023 budget bill

Moroccan MPs gave go-ahead to the 2023 budget law that aims to foster the well-fare state, cut the fiscal deficit and promote investment in a difficult international context marked by the impact of imported inflation and the repercussions of climate change and drought. Drought and inflation have both dipped Morocco’s growth forecast for 2022 to […]

UN peacekeeping in Mali to be boosted with addition of 250 UK troops

The United Kingdom is to send a contingent of 250 troops to Mali next year, to support the UN’s peacekeeping operation in the country, MINUSMA, announced the United Nations. A statement, posted on the UK Ministry of Defense website on Monday, said that the soldiers were being deployed in recognition of increased instability in the […]

Libya: HoR and GNC’s dissidents call for Leon’s Peace deal approval

Dissidents from rival parties in the Libyan crisis Thursday called for the endorsement of the UN-suggested Government of National Accord and Peace deal days after their main bodies rejected the UN plan. A group of 21 dissident lawmakers of the Libyan internationally recognised Parliament; the House of Representatives (HoR,) issued a statement on Thursday calling […]