Maina Kiai, UN special rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

Morocco: Government expects growth to improve to 4.5% in 2023

The Moroccan government is elaborating a budget bill forecasting growth at 4.5% in 2023 after 1.5% in 2021, assuming an average agricultural output. Growth has decelerated in 2021 as the country faces the worst drought in decades, coupled with imported inflation pressures affecting the trade balance due to higher energy imports. The 2023 growth forecast […]

Burkina Faso: 24 troops killed, several wounded

In Burkina Faso, extremists have killed at least 24 soldiers in the country’s northern Soum Province near Mali’s border. In a statement released on Tuesday, the military said several more soldiers were wounded in the attack in Soum Province. The military said an air and land operation has been launched “in reaction to the barbaric […]

Coronavirus: Business as usual in Tanger-Med, health control tightened

The import and export activities in Tanger-Med port continue as usual, but in view of the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, it has been proceeded to the tightening of health and sanitary control of professional drivers of international road transport, in accordance with the health emergency decreed in Morocco.   All the services of the […]