The U.S. Trade and Development Agency announced this Thursday it will fund a feasibility study to transform the power distribution infrastructure in Marrakech into a smart grid. The announcement was made on the sidelines of the 2022 U.S.-Africa Business Summit taking place in Marrakesh. The study will be carried out by Washington-based Africa Climate Solutions […]
Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), the largest opposition group in the parliament, voted for Abdellatif Ouahbi as new Secretary General succeeding to Abdelhakim Benchamach, Speaker of the House of Advisors. Ouahbi, a prominent lawyer, was elected unanimousy by members of the party’s national council at the end of its fourth congress held in […]
Over the past decade, the Algerian dinar has experienced a dramatic free-fall in value compared to the Moroccan dirham. In 2014, one dirham was worth ten dinars, but by 2024, this gap has doubled, with one dirham now equivalent to twenty Algerian dinars. This gap is not due to an appreciation of the dirham, which […]
