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Morocco unveils mining sector overhaul plan focused on safety, industrial growth

Morocco’s energy transition minister, Leila Benali, outlined an ambitious plan to reform the country’s mining sector, pledging stronger worker protections, streamlined regulations and deeper integration of mining regions into the national economy. The mining industry accounts for nearly 10% of Morocco’s gross domestic product, 20% of export value and provides more than 40,000 direct jobs, […]

Morocco counts on domestic know-how for post-covid-19 economic recovery

Morocco Thursday unveiled its post-covid-19 economy recovery plan and has made reliance on domestic know-how as a cornerstone of the three-year plan (2021-2023). Moulay Hafid Elalamy, minister of industry, trade and digital and green economy, who was presenting the plan to the Moroccan employers’ union, the CGEM, indicated that the global pandemic, which has decimated […]

King Mohammed VI orders setting up of Mohammadia Foundation for Moroccans Residing Abroad

King Mohammed VI has ordered the setting up of the Mohammadia Foundation for Moroccans Residing Abroad that shall serve as the executive arm of Moroccan policy towards its nationals abroad, part of a large overhaul of institutions taking care of the Moroccan diaspora. This came in a royal speech marking the 49th anniversary of the […]