Business Emerging Markets Headlines

AfCFTA needs seamless movement of people and nexus with industrialization

Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) can only be successful if there is seamless movement of people, goods and services and a reinforced nexus with the continent’s industrialization so as to effectively realize Africa’s critical development aspirations. AfCFTA can only be successful if there is seamless movement of people, goods and services, according to Dr. […]

Egypt Headlines

Egypt: UN Human right boss charges al-Sisi’s approach against terrorism

The Head of UN Human Right Commission has lambasted President al-Sisi’s strategy against terrorism as he argued that crackdown on human rights groups and activists fuels the surge in radicalization. Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein speaking in Geneva Monday noted that even though Egypt deserves to stamp out terrorism, the limitation on human rights rolls out a […]

Algeria Headlines

Algeria: Government Bars UN Experts from Probing Human Rights Abuses, AI

Amnesty International lashed out at Algerian authorities in its human rights annual report presented Wednesday because of their persistent refusal to let UN experts investigate human right abuses and because they granted immunity to the authors of the grave crimes and tortures cased during the internal bloody war of 1990s. “The authorities persisted in their […]

Features Headlines Morocco

EU Mulls Granting Easier Visas for Moroccans

The European commission is planning to open talks with Morocco to ease visas procedures for short term visitors, students, researchers and business professionals. “This is a very concrete and important step in the cooperation between the EU and Morocco. Easier access to visas will reinforce the social and economic development and mutual understanding between our […]

Letters to the Editor Opinions

Freedom of Expression in Post–Revolution Tunisia, Gains and Pitfalls

In a brief conversation with a taxi driver who was taking me from Cartage international airport to down town Medina, I noticed glimpses of optimism in his speech. He said he was glad about the changes that took place in what he sometimes called “Modern Tunisia,” and some other times “post-revolutionary Tunisia.” “We have lived […]