Amid mounting financial tensions and a wave of sovereign credit downgrades, Morocco has defied the trend, earning an upgrade to investment grade status in 2025. The North African nation is now considered a “rising star” by Standard & Poor’s, reflecting its economic resilience and sustained reform momentum. Morocco’s transition from speculative to investment grade (BBB-) […]
Thanks to a pre-emptive security approach, Moroccan authorities succeeded in aborting 341 terrorist plots and dismantling 168 terrorist cells before they moved to action, Director General of International Cooperation at Morocco’s Interior Ministry, Mohamed Moufakir, said. Speaking at a seminar on security cooperation in the Mediterranean region in Rabat, Moufakir highlighted the efficiency of Morocco’s […]
Mauritanian Parliament has passed a new anti-slavery law which criminalizes “10 forms of slavery”, including forced marriage and other controversial social practices such as handing a woman over to another man without her consent after the death of her husband. Mauritania abolished slavery in 1981, but human rights activists say the practice is still alive. […]
