King in Casablanca synagogue

Fitch gives Morocco ‘BB+’ rating with stable outlook

Fitch agency has awarded Morocco ‘BB+’ rating consolidated with a stable outlook thanks to the country’s sound macroeconomic policies that has supported resilience to shocks, a favorable debt composition and a comfortable external liquidity buffer. Economic growth slowed in 2022 to 1.2% from 7.9% in 2021, as agricultural output contracted by 15% due to a […]

Algeria: Demonstrators in Paris demand release of Khaled Drareni

Demonstrators gathered Monday in front of the Algerian Embassy in Paris to demand the release of journalist Khaled Drareni on the eve of his appeal trial. The director of the news website Casbah Tribune and correspondent for TV5 Monde and RSF has been detained in Algeria since the end of March. He had been arrested […]

Beirut blasts: Morocco urges UNESCO to support rehabilitation of schools, cultural heritage buildings

Morocco has urged the UNESCO to grant substantial support to Lebanon for the rehabilitation of schools and cultural heritage buildings, damaged in the devastating blasts that rocked the Lebanese capital and wreaked havoc throughout the city, killing close to 200 people, injuring thousands of others, and leaving around a quarter of a million homeless. It […]