Morocco: online purchase of locally manufactured products now possible

The Casablanca Chamber of Commerce and services and the Moroccan National Federation of e-commerce (FNEM) have launched a website, made-in-morocco.ma, dedicated to online sales of locally manufactured products. The website offers more than 420,000 Moroccan products, from all regions of the kingdom, including foodstuffs such as saffron, olive oil or argan oil, readymade traditional costumes […]

Digital innovation transforms Morocco’s traditional savings system

Morocco’s centuries-old rotating savings system, known locally as “daret” or tontine, is undergoing a digital transformation aimed at addressing the financial exclusion affecting 53 percent of the country’s adult population. The new mobile application, developed by former French banking executives Nabil Chakir and Mourad Chokeir, seeks to modernize this informal financial practice while preserving its […]

UN experts accuse Algerian regime of using ‘terrorism’ as a political tool to suppress public freedoms

UN experts and Special Rapporteurs have accused the Algerian regime of “politically instrumentalizing terrorism” to suppress public freedoms. In a correspondence addressed to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), these UN experts and rapporteurs accused the Algerian regime of politically instrumentalizing “terrorism” to repress and prohibit public freedoms. According […]