Car industry in Morocco

UN Sahara envoy gets off to bad start due to Algeria’s intransigence

The newly appointed UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy for the Sahara Staffan de Mistura is off to a bad start after concluding a first regional tour marked by Algeria’s unwillingness to uphold its responsibility as a main party to the conflict. After holding talks with Morocco’s foreign minister in Rabat and a visit to the […]

Covid-19: Morocco suspends flights to and from France starting Nov.28

Moroccan authorities have decided to suspend temporarily flights to and from France starting Nov.28 due to a surge of Covid-19 infections and deaths in some European countries as winter season approaches. The flights suspension was initially to be enforced this Friday but was postponed by two days to enable Moroccan nationals and foreigners living in […]

Can Africa create half a billion jobs by 2050 to overcome its demographic dilemma?

Since Africa’s population has quadrupled since 1960, and is projected to double again by 2050, experts are pondering a crucial question for the future of the continent: how can enough work be created for the increasing numbers of youth arriving on the continent’s labor markets? Development economists have followed with a great concern that, in […]