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COVID-19: Morocco’s King Deployed a Genuine Marshall Plan to Support Economy, Protect Populations – Forbes

The magazine “Forbes France” highlighted, on Monday, the “Marshall Plan” deployed by King Mohammed VI, from the start of the coronavirus health crisis, as part of an anticipatory approach meant to support the economy and protect the populations. The magazine detailed this response plan and the various far-reaching measures implemented by Morocco to combat the […]

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Tunisia Needs Marshall Plan, EU Parliament Committee Says

Members of the European parliament’s Foreign Affairs committee have stated that Tunisia’s transitional period needs support and stronger cooperation with the European Union. The MEPs underlined the need “to support the democratic consolidation and promote economic development” in a plan, that the Tunisian state-owned media called a “Marshall Plan” in reference to the post world […]

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Tunisia: Parliament Speaker calls on EU to establish Marshall Plan for Tunisia

Tunisia’s Parliament Speaker Mohamed Ennaceur Monday called on EU to put in place a “Marshall Plan” to help secure his country’s struggling economy. Ennaceur was speaking at a parliament plenary session attended by EU parliament President Martin Schulz. For Ennaceur, the EU plan could be in the form of intensification of financial support to Tunisia’s […]

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Renewable Energy: Ex-French energy minister plans $3 Bln fund for africa

Jean Louis Borloo, France’s former energy minister hopes to raise $3 billion from Western donors by next year to help cash-strapped African nations fund renewable energy projects, in a bid to tackle pollution and spur development. According to Jean Louis Borloo, his project to bring energy to 600 million Africans already had commitments from Western […]

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Algeria Tries to Defuse Unemployment Time Bomb

Algeria announced on Monday a series of measures to fight the chronic unemployment excluding thousands of Algerian youths from the work market, mainly in the southern parts of the country. The announcement came while anger is growing among these youths who have planned a massive protest demonstration for Thursday and who no longer believe the […]