FIGAROVOX/ENTRETIEN – Plusieurs centaines d’artistes et d’intellectuels marocains critiquent la régression de la liberté d’expression des opposants dans le pays. L’historien du Maghreb contemporain juge que Rabat opère en effet un «tour de vis» alors que les tensions sociales augmentent.
Lire la suite depuis la source : Le Figaro
Tags : Maghreb, libertés, répression,
NEW DELHI, Aug. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Banque Populaire de Mauritanie (BPM), one of the leading banks in Mauritania has launched a state-of-the-art mobile banking service called Bankily earlier this year. The service has received a positive…
Read more from the source : CISION News
Tags : Mauritania, Bankily, digital banking,
ISTANBUL – International aid organizations say 45 people, including five children, were killed in the deadliest shipwreck off Libya’s coast this year. Thirty-six survivors, mostly from Senegal, Mali, Chad and Ghana, were rescued by local fishermen after their boat’s engine exploded earlier…
Read more from the source : Central Asia News.net
Tags : Libya, shipwreck,
In recent weeks, the potential for open conflict between various states in the South-Eastern Mediterranean has increased dramatically. The Communist Tendency (IMT section in Greece) has already released a statement on the escalation of war tensions between Greece and Turkey over access to…
Read more from the source : In Defence of Marxism
Tags : Libya, Turkey, Egypt,
A relic of the Cold War, the Morocco-Western Sahara conflict remains frozen and mired in uncertainty. Nearing its 50th year, the clash has displaced and killed thousands over the years. Thankfully, some organizations have floated…
Read more from the source : The Borgen Project
Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, Polisario,
Algeria’s state grains agency OAIC has issued an international tender to buy milling wheat to be sourced from optional origins, European traders said on Sunday. The tender sought a nominal 50,000 tonnes but Algeria often buys considerably more …
Read more from the source : Hellenic Shipping News
Tags : Algeria, milling wheat,
Algeria has launched Islamic finance products in a bid to attract money from the informal market, but bankers warn it will take more to fix the country’s struggling economy. Falling oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic have battered the North African country, triggering alarm bells among officials and experts. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast…
Read more fromt he source : The Manila Times
Tags : Algeria, Islamic finance, economy,
French activist and PHD student, Meriem Naili, has today started a bike ride from France to Geneva in Switzerland, in solidarity with the Saharawi people and in favour of the decolonization of this last colony in Africa…
Read more from the source : Occuworld
Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, solidarity,
The Israel-UAE peace deal was an unpleasant surprise to the Moroccan diplomatic and intelligence community as it foiled the general expectation that Rabat would be the third regional power to hold the distinction of normalizing relations with Jerusalem. Reliance on past…
Read more from the source : Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
Tags : Morocco, Israel, normalisation, Israel-UAE Peace Deal,
As growing numbers of migrants cross from Tunisia to Europe, top Italian and European Union officials promised Monday to support Tunisian development efforts to create jobs and keep young people from trying to flee the North African country. During a visit to Tunisia, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said Italy was ready to provide aid, notably for youth programs…
Read more from the source : Associated Press
Tags : Tunisia, jobs, migration,