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Morocco’s Industrial Output Stagnates in January as Sales Decline

Morocco’s industrial sector began 2026 on a subdued note, with production flatlining and sales volumes retreating across several key branches, according to Bank Al-Maghrib’s monthly business conditions survey for January. The central bank’s data showed overall capacity utilization settling at 77 percent, a reading that reflects the uneven performance across the country’s main industrial segments. […]

Rush for lithium in Africa reveals dark side of green energy, as it fails citizens, fuels corruption

As China has come to dominate global supply chains for critical raw materials (CRM) over the last two decades, the European Union and the United States have played a catch-up in race for the control of the CRM supplies — with African countries being “caught in the cross-fire”. Faced with China’s lithium mining head-start, the […]

EU MPs reject proposal hostile to Morocco’s territorial integrity

Members of the foreign affairs committee at the European Parliament turned down a proposal sponsored by advocates of separatism calling for treating southern Morocco, the Sahara, as a separate entity within the European neighborhood policy. The anti-Morocco proposal was put forward by the Greens in a series of failed proposals that bear prejudice to the […]