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Tunisia has identified two suspects from Bosnia and Croatia as killers of Mohammed al-Zawari, a former Hamas drone maker. Zawari was gunned down in December 2016 in front of his house in Sfax by unknown assailants. Palestinian group Hamas then said the Tunisian had worked with the movement for a decade as its drone expert. […]
Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission that was set up in 2014 to investigate and serve justice to victims of half a century of dictatorship is poised to submit its recommendations. The first version of the recommendations is to be delivered at a public event on Friday and Saturday, before the full report is submitted by […]
The Algerian government has resorted again to the printing press to inject in the market over 4,000 billion dinars, the equivalent of 20% of the country’s GDP, to deal with the 2018 budget deficit. The situation is likely to get worse in 2019, as the outlook for oil prices is rather pessimistic. Since 2014, economic […]
King Mohammed VI received, Tuesday afternoon, at the Royal Palace of Rabat, the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres. The two men discussed several topical issues, including the intergovernmental Conference on migration, the situation in the Maghreb region and the African continent, and the Moroccan Sahara. When touching on the Sahara issue in light of the […]
Mauritanian capital Nouakchott is hosting this week a business forum aimed at boosting Mauritanian-Moroccan partnership in the energy field. The forum, held under the auspices of the Pan-African Confederation of Electricity (CAFELEC), is co-organized by the Moroccan Federation of Electricity, Electronics and Renewable Energies (FENELEC Morocco) and the Mauritanian Electricity Company (SOMELEC). The forum featured […]
The Tunisian parliament approved earlier this week the 2019 budget, which does not provide for any new taxes on individuals in a move to buy social peace. Earlier this year, People had taken to the streets to protest against the government’s austerity measures. The protests broke out after activists and politicians denounced increases in VAT […]
The European Parliament has acknowledged the positive impact that tariff preferences granted to agricultural and fisheries products from the Sahara have on these Southern provinces. “The tariff preferences enjoyed by the territory between 2013 and 2016 had a positive impact on the agricultural and fisheries sector, investment in infrastructure, health and education. The non-application of […]
The European Parliament strongly supports the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, and welcomes its adoption in Marrakesh, Morocco on Monday, the European institution said, adding it strongly believes that international cooperation on migration must be people-centered and rights-based. MEPs regret the campaign of disinformation that has led to several countries withdrawing their […]
Morocco and the African Union choose Marrakech, which is hosting this Dec.10-11 the Intergovernmental Conference on Migration, to sign the headquarters agreement of the African Migration Observatory. The setting up of the African Migration Observatory, to be headquartered in Rabat, was proposed by King Mohammed VI, in his capacity as the AU leader on the […]
The Global Compact on Migration (GCM), which was adopted on Monday in Marrakech, was hailed by world leaders, senior Govt officials, representatives of civil society and migrants as a “historic event” and the best way to address the issues of migration at the local, national, regional and global levels. Participants in the two-day Intergovernmental Conference […]