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Morocco’s Central Bank Keeps Key Interest Rate Unchanged at 2.2 % & Expects 4.6 % Growth in 2025

Morocco’s Central Bank has decided to maintain the key interest rate unchanged at 2.25 percent due to deceleration in food prices and a slowdown of inflation from 2 % on average in the first quarter of this year to 0.7 % in April and 0.4 % in May. The decision was made by the Bank’s […]

Morocco, Mauritania to upgrade cooperation in advanced regionalization, decentralization

Morocco and Mauritania have voiced their shared resolve to upgrade their cooperation in matters of advanced regionalization and decentralization and to establish effective partnerships between the two countries’ local authorities. This came during a meeting held in Rabat on Monday between Moroccan Minister of the Interior, Abdelouafi Laftit, and Mauritanian Minister in charge of Decentralization […]

Algiers, Tripoli among world’s least livable cities, The Economist

Algiers and Tripoli were rooted at the bottom of a table as the third and second least livable cities in the world, on par with war-torn Damascus which has kept the notoriety of being the worst city to live in since 2013, the Economist said.   Kyiv, at the heart of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war, […]