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Child recruitment in Tindouf encourages terrorism, instability, radicalization in North Africa and in Sahel

The polisario-forced and Algeria-backed recruitment of children in the camps of Tindouf fuels instability in North Africa and the Sahel, said, on Thursday in Dakhla, the minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita. Speaking at a conference organized by the International Research Center on the Prevention of Child Soldiers, Bourita stressed the correlation between the lack […]

IMF commends Morocco for mitigating economic impact of external shocks

The IMF highlighted on Jan 24 the “very strong policy response” that Morocco took to mitigate the social and economic impact of the recent negative shocks fueled by the repercussions of the war in Ukraine. At the end of its Article IV consultations, the IMF said Morocco’s economy will bounce back to 4% in 2023 […]

Africa’s $824bn debt burden, opaque resource-backed loans, hamper continent’s economic potential — AfDB

African Development Bank (AfDB) has asked policymakers to put in place an orderly and predictable way of dealing with Africa’s ballooning, unsustainable external debt pile that reached $824 billion in 2021. Africa’s $824 billion debt burden, the servicing of which requires countries to dedicate 65% of their GDP, and opaque, non-transparent resource-backed loans hamper the […]