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  • Morocco Is a COVID-19 Success Story. But at What Cost?

    MADRID—In late March, about 100 Moroccan migrants living in Spain paid smugglers 5,400 euros each—roughly $6,100—to make the treacherous journey home in inflatable rafts. In a curious case of reverse migration, they desperately fled a wealthy country that had been crippled by the coronavirus and could not offer them work for the foreseeable future. Yet when they finally reached the beaches of Larache, on Morocco’s western coast, they were hunted by the Moroccan authorities, who were concerned that the migrants would spread the coronavirus. Police conducted a door-to-door search, and at least one migrant was found hiding in a clay oven to avoid detection, according to a report in the Spanish newspaper El Pais.

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    Tags : Morocco, coronavirus, covid 19,

  • Tunisia: Confusion over deactivated Facebook accounts

    There is ongoing confusion over why Facebook has deactivated a number of Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to journalists, bloggers, activists and artists in Tunisia. Those affected include journalist Haythem El Mekki, blogger Sarah Ben Hamadi and musician Bendir Man. While some accounts have been reinstated, others remain deactivated, with some users…

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    Tags : Tunisia, Facebook, Instagram,

  • Kinross Gold boosts position in Mauritania

    Canada’s Kinross Gold (TSX:K) (NYSE:KGC) has reached an in-principle deal with the government of Mauritania, which the company says will better balance the interests of both parties involved in the Tasiast gold mine. Under the terms of…

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    Tags : Mauritania, mining, Kinross,

  • US$175 Million Budget Support for Tunisia to Mitigate the Economic Impact of Covid-19

    The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved, on June 12, a budget support of US$175 Million for Tunisia under the Resilience and Recovery Emergency Development Policy Operation. The operation, part of a coordinated and substantial international support package to help Tunisia respond to the COVID-19 crisis, includes contributions from…

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    Tags : Tunisia, covid 19, coronavirus, World Bank,

  • The Internationalization of Libya

    Jon Alterman: Fred Wehrey is a senior fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was a senior policy analyst at RAND for seven years. Before joining Carnegie, he served for 21 years in the Air Force, both in active and reserve duty. He is the…

    Read more from the source : Center for Strategic & International Studies

     

     

     

     

    Tags : Libya, internationalization, 

  • Kinross reaches terms with Government of Mauritania to enhance partnership

    TORONTO, June 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Kinross Gold Corporation (TSX:K; NYSE:KGC) (“Kinross”) is pleased to announce today that it has reached an agreement in principle (“agreement”) with the Government of Mauritania (“Government”) to enhance the parties’ partnership…

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    Tags : Mauritania, Kinross, gold,

  • Morocco launches a new agricultural development strategy to double exports

    Morocco has launched its new agricultural development strategy, ‘Génération Green 2020-2030’, with which it plans to improve the country’s Gross Domestic Product and double exports in the next ten years, completing the Green Morocco Plan. In the official presentation…

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    Tags : Morocco, agriculture, Green Morocco Plan,

  • Traditional and modern ways to approach COVID-19 in Algeria

    COVID-19 has seemingly re-written global rules spanning social, economic, political and environmental spheres of influence. No country or region has been spared from the effects of the pandemic. In Algeria, as elsewhere, many of these…

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    Tags : Algeria, covid 19, coronavirus,

  • UN Chief: 'Deeply Shocked' by Mass Graves in Libya

    A spokesman for U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the secretary is “deeply shocked by the discovery of multiple mass graves in recent days, the majority of them in Tarhouna” in Libya. Tarhouna was a stronghold of renegade General Khalifa Haftar and his forces, but it recently…

    Read more from the source : UAENews.net

     

     

     

    Tags : Libya, mass graves,

  • 12 soldats tués dans une attaque terroriste en Côte d’Ivoire

    L’attaque jihadiste qui a visé une base militaire de soldats ivoiriens dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi à Kafolo, située dans le nord-est du pays, à la frontière du Burkina Faso, a fait au moins douze victimes, selon des sources sécuritaires.

    Selon la même source, le bilan fait état de 12 morts dont 11 militaires et un gendarme et de 6 blessés et 2 disparus avec un assaillant tué et un blessé.

    L’attaque a été menée par plusieurs dizaines d’individus armés, des éléments du GSIM (Groupe de soutien à l’islam et aux musulmans).

    L’attaque s’est produite dans « la même zone que l’opération antijihadiste » menée conjointement par les armées ivoirienne et burkinabè en mai, selon les sources ivoirienne et burkinabè.

    Essahraa.net

    Tags : Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, terrorisme, GSIM, Groupe de soutien à l’islam et aux musulmans,