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A group of 149 European tourists touched downed on Sunday at Enfidha-Hammamet international airport, heralding the resumption of travel industry and tourism in the North African country. Luxemburg national carrier, Luxair, landed with the holiday makers coming largely from the European Union member-state and France, Webdo Tunis reports. The visitors will be accomodated in the […]
An ECOWAS delegation was on a mission in Mali to try to defuse the political crisis in the country. But the crisis exit plan of the experts of the West African organization was not accepted by the opposition, which demands the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. The mission recommended the formation of a government […]
A new high-tech textile industrial unit in Casablanca will start operations shortly, under an agreement signed this week by Minister of Industry and Trade, Moulay Hafid Elalamy, and the managing director of Omega Textile Maroc, Song Linghui. The unit, requiring an investment of 80 million dirhams, will manufacture hosiery, socks and lingerie by using new […]
The coronavirus outbreak has caused a surge in spending and a drop in revenues for state coffers pushing the government to review the targets and spending schemes under the 2020 budget while maintaining priority for social spending. The administration has adopted austerity measures to reduce unnecessary spending saving some $200 million that was scheduled for […]
The Moroccan government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak was “swift and decisive,” the World Bank said in its Economic Monitor report for July 2020. “The government’s proactive response enabled the country to avoid a massive outbreak, thus saving lives,” said the Washington-based institution, noting that continued good policy measures are “critical” both to shorten and […]
International policy expert Marco Iaconetti has called on the Italian government to launch investigations on the fate of the humanitarian aid it sends to the Tindouf camps in Algeria, noting that evidence rather showed that the aid, supposed to be humanitarian, actually was used to buy arms. In press articles he published after the […]
The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) on Friday adopted a resolution presented by Morocco on “the 15th anniversary of the responsibility of protecting populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, as enshrined in the 2005 World Summit Outcome”. This resolution, initiated and negotiated by a core group comprising six countries including […]
Leaders of Libyan tribes have expressed their support for a military intervention of the Egyptian army in the oil rich country. This came at a meeting Thursday with Egypt’s President Fattah al-Sisi who made it clear that he will not “stand idle in the face of threats to the national security of Egypt and […]
After 17 months at the head of the Ministry of National Defense, Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda had been named Prime Minister, in replacement of Julien Nkoghe Bekale who spent a year and a half in the position. This is the first time ever since its independence 60 years ago that Gabon is having a woman […]
Tunisia has been chosen to host the 8th Tokyo International Conference on African Development, TICAD, scheduled for 2022, Japan’s embassy to Tunisia announced on Thursday. “Initiated by Japan’s government since 1993, this international conference aims to speed up political dialogues between African leaders and development partners on challenges facing the Continent. It is a multi-lateral […]