Tag: Maghreb region
Headlines Morocco

RiskMap2017: Morocco Most Secure, Politically Stable in North Africa

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Risks, a specialist risk consultancy, published its annual study on trends in global risk and security, The Risk Map, which ranks Morocco as one of the most secure and politically stable countries for business in Africa and the first in the Maghreb region. The map, which highlights different levels of political and security risk, presented […]
Headlines Morocco

HRW Urges UN S-G to Intervene for Release of Women Detained by Polisario

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Human Rights Watch has urged the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who is currently touring the Maghreb region to intervene in favor of Sahrawi women who are prevented by their families from leaving the Polisario-run Tindouf camps for Spain, where they legally reside. HRW called the UN chief to seize the opportunity of his visit […]
Headlines Tunisia

Tunisia-UN: Tunisia ranks third Maghreb country ON UN HDI report, fifth in Africa

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UN 2015 report on Human Development Index puts Tunisia behind Algeria, Libya and in front of Morocco despites loss of several spots compare to previous reports. Tunisia ranks third in the Maghreb region just behind Algeria and Libya. It also occupies the fifth place on the African continent where Mauritius and Seychelles still hold the […]