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Minister Sinia Mali has announced on his Instagram profile plans for salary and pension growth, as well as one-time assistance for mothers of children up to 16 years old.

BELGRADE - Hosting EXPO 2027 will be an opportunity for Serbia to present itself in the right light and the expo will the biggest and the most important event for Serbia in decades, Serbian Finance Minister Sinisa Mali said on Thursday.

Serbia will host more than 120 countries.

New sanctions were imposed on Niger by neighboring Nigeria hours after a diplomatic delegation of African countries and the United Nations was sent away without meeting the junta that seized power in late July.

The military that overthrew the legal authority in Niger has requested help from the Russian private military company "Wagner" on the eve of an expected West African military intervention to restore constitutional order, writes "Associated Press".

BELGRADE - Serbia's debt-to-GDP ratio is 50.5 pct and the country has not crossed the red line of overindebtedness, says Serbian Deputy PM and Finance Minister Sinisa Mali.

In response to criticism from opposition leader Dragan Djilas, Mali said that, by comparison, the Eurozone debt-to-GDP ratio was 91.2 pct according to the latest Eurostat figures.

BELGRADE - EXPO Belgrade 2027 will hugely contribute to development of Belgrade and Serbia, it is a great honour to Serbia and it will be the biggest-ever event hosted by the country, Finance Minister Sinisa Mali said on Wednesday, noting that Belgrade would be the centre of the world over the course of the three months of the expo.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and Finance Minister Sinisa Mali and Saudi Arabia's Minister of Tourism Ahmed bin Aqil al-Khateeb signed on Tuesday in Belgrade a MoU in which the Saudi Development Fund expressed interest in providing financing for specific projects in Serbia in the amount of around 200 mln dollars.

In a riot of color, music and dance, thousands of Tuareg have flocked to the Sebeiba festival that marks the end of an ancient tribal feud and which once a year transforms an oasis town deep in the Algerian Sahara.

France has suspended all development aid and budgetary support to Niger following a military coup against President Mohamed Bazoum, the French Foreign Ministry said.

Paris "calls for an immediate return to constitutional order in Niger," along with the reinstatement of democratically-elected Bazoum, the ministry said in a statement.