Tunisia

Washington Lauds Rabat’s Mature & Balanced Approach Regarding Sahara Issue

Under Secretary of State for political affairs Thomas A. Shannon hailed Morocco for its mature and balanced approach in dealing with the Sahara issue, describing the proposal made by the North African country to grant autonomy status to the disputed territory as “realistic, serious and credible.” “Morocco’s autonomy proposal is realistic, serious and credible,” and […]

Morocco’s social protection program to curb informal sector

Morocco has adopted an ambitious program to generalize social protection and mandatory health coverage to all citizens, in a move conducive to the government’s efforts to curb the size of the informal sector, the central bank governor Abdellatif Jouahri said. The informal sector represents 30% of Morocco’s GDP and reducing its scale requires policies that […]

Moroccan Press Union gives lesson to biased rights NGOs

The Union of the Moroccan press, an independent body grouping Moroccan journalists, released a statement in which it called for a fair trial for Omar Radi and Hafsa Boutahar who accused him of rape. Unlike biased Rights NGOs like Morocco’s AMDH, RSF, Amnesty, and HRW, the National Union of the Moroccan press listened to both […]