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Pressure Mounts on Morocco as Migrants Opt for Western Mediterranean Route to Europe

Migrants are increasingly shunning the Libyan routes for security reasons in favor of the closer and less risky Moroccan-Spanish land and sea borders. Some 400 migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa reached Spain on Thursday after storming a double barrier between Morocco and the Spain-occupied enclave of Ceuta, with some attacking security forces with quicklime, police told […]

Morocco: Project to generalize social protection launched under King’s chairmanship

King Mohammed VI chaired, Wednesday at the Royal Palace of Fez, the launching ceremony of the implementation of the project to generalize social protection, which represents a genuine social revolution given its direct and concrete impact on the improvement of the living conditions of citizens, the preservation of the dignity of all Moroccans and the […]

Morocco: October sovereign bond

A sovereign bond worth almost a billion dollars could go on sale by the end of this month although it could be pushed back to latter date depending on the advice the central bank receives. The bond is likely to be of medium term maturity. The governor of the kingdom’s central bank, Abdellatif Jouahri, was […]