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The World Bank (WB) said in its semi-annual MENA economic Monitor that GDP growth in Morocco will rebound to 3.8% in 2017 on the backdrop of abundant rainfall auguring a good agricultural season. The report noted that growth would improve to 3.8% after the Moroccan economy endured the impact of drought in 2016 which dragged […]
Archaeologists in Egypt last weekend discovered a 3,500-year-old tomb of a nobleman with several mummies, 10 sarcophagi and more than 1,000 statues near the west bank of the Nile River in Luxor. According to Egypt’s antiquities ministry, the 18th Dynasty tomb, discovered in the Draa Abul Nagaa necropolis near the famed Valley of the Kings, […]
The run-up to the May 4th parliamentary election is being marred with a gender controversy after some political parties left the images of female candidates on their official campaign posters blank. The female candidates were represented with an avatar wearing a Hijab while the face was left blank in white. The Independent High Authority for […]
Morocco’ King Mohammed VI has called on Arab financial institutions to pool efforts in order to support economic and financial reforms engaged in the Arab world, facing major regional and international challenges. In a message addressed to participants in the 2017 Annual Joint Meetings of Arab Financial Institutions, convened Tuesday in Rabat, the Moroccan Sovereign […]
The Tunisian economy continues to suffer from major difficulties, including high external and fiscal deficits, increasing debt, while growth is too low to reduce unemployment, says the International Monetary Fund. “Tunisia’s fiscal and external deficits reached record levels. The wage bill has climbed to one of the highest in the world, and public debt further […]
Senior commander of Morocco’s Royal Navy had talks with Greek peers on a set of issues of mutual interest, on top of which the possibility of acquiring Submarines used by the Greek navy, said the website Far-Maroc specializing in military issues. The same source reported that commanders of the Tarik Ben Zyad and Sultan Moulay […]
The UN-backed Presidential Council’s problems are festering as leaked list of new appointed ambassadors reveals corruption and nepotism at the head of the new Libyan leadership tasked to reconstruct the country following the death of former strongman Muammar Gaddafi. A source in the Government of National Accord (GNA) led by the Presidential Council (PC) has […]
Russia and Algeria are to meet up this Tuesday in the Algerian capital for the second consultations on the cooperation against terrorism established by both countries last year, reports say. Announced by the Algerian foreign ministry, the meeting will be a platform to ponder over regional and international cooperation against terrorism, to address hotbed conflict […]
In Morocco, 50.5% of work activities can be automated, making the Kingdom the second country in Africa with the highest potential for robot’s use in industry, Mckinsey said in a recently published research. Morocco was placed second in Africa, preceded by Kenya with an automation potential of 51.9% and followed by Egypt (48.7%), Nigeria (45.7) […]
Habib al-Adly, Mubarak’s interior ministry until his demise in 2011 has been handed seven-year in prison sentence for corruption related charges, reports say. Known as Mubarak’s iron man, Adly served as interior minister from 1997 to 2011 when a popular revolt swept away the Egyptian autocratic leader and his regime. He was the longest serving […]