A highly emotional testimony published by Spanish daily El País about a young Moroccan woman who swam into Ceuta during the mass crossings of late July has been sharply contradicted by her own social media history, which paints a picture of international travel, modelling work, and a comfortable urban lifestyle far removed from the narrative […]
More than twenty years after its dramatic collapse, the Banque Nationale de Développement Économique (BNDE) continues to haunt Morocco’s financial history. Bank Al-Maghrib, led by Abdellatif Jouahri, has extended by one year the liquidation process of the former state development bank, a delay Jeune Afrique describes as reflecting the difficulty of settling the accounts of […]
At a time most of the MENA region countries chose the status quo to tackle the crises rolling out of the Arab Spring, Morocco opted for a social contract that safeguards stability through credible reforms, coupled with measures to uproot extremism, the Australian newspaper highlighted. King Mohammed VI brought a new social contract by choosing […]
