The Moroccan government is elaborating a budget bill forecasting growth at 4.5% in 2023 after 1.5% in 2021, assuming an average agricultural output. Growth has decelerated in 2021 as the country faces the worst drought in decades, coupled with imported inflation pressures affecting the trade balance due to higher energy imports. The 2023 growth forecast […]
At least some 37 foreign workers, who were taken lately hostage by Islamist militants linked to Al Qaeda at a gas plant in Southern Algerian city of In Amenas, were killed during a military operation launched by the Algerian Special Forces to release the captives and retake to the gasfield compound. The identified slain hostages […]
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares has affirmed that Morocco remains “the first priority” of his country’s foreign policy, stressing the need to maintain good relations with the North African Kingdom. Speaking during a forum held Monday in Madrid on the occasion of the upcoming Spanish presidency of the European Union, Albares said all Spanish […]
