Algeria continues to face important challenges posed by lower oil prices, says the International Monetary Fund Executive Board after concluding Article IV consultation with the North African country. Economic growth in the nonhydrocarbon sector slowed to 2.9 percent in 2016, partly under the effects of spending cuts. Inflation increased from 4.8 percent in 2015 to […]
FARThe Moroccan armed forces (FAR) sent two Canadair planes to Italy to extinguish the fire that ravaged so far more than 2000 hectares of forests. Italy becomes the third country that receives Moroccan aid after Spain and Portugal, which also received Moroccan Canadair flights. Southern Italy, including Sicily, has been plagued by wildfires this summer […]
Political parties in Egypt are divided over the draft of the electoral law that will restructure electoral constituencies and the formation of the parliament. The draft is to be endorsed on Wednesday but Minister Ibrahim El-Heneidy of Transitional Justice and House of Representatives Affairs hinted that it could be postponed for a week or two. […]
