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Moroccan report highlights steady growth, persistent fragilities in small businesses

The Moroccan Observatory of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (OMTPME) presented its 2025 Annual Report offering a comprehensive overview of Morocco’s corporate business landscape in 2024, revealing a combination of sustained growth and ongoing structural vulnerabilities. According to the report, unveiled during a press conference in Casablanca led by its executive director, Amal Idrissi, Morocco […]

International: Russia offers mediation to end KSA & Iran showdown

Russian Foreign Ministry Monday offered its mediation to help Gulf rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran end diplomatic spat caused by Riyadh’s execution of Saudi Shia cleric followed by assaults on two Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic missions in Iran. “We ask… Tehran, Riyadh and other Gulf countries to show restraint,” the ministry said in a statement before […]

Government, unions offer diverging participation rates following strike

The two-day first general strike called for by Morocco’s labor unions since 2016 ended Thursday with diverging participation rate figures. Unions said the two-day strike that started on Feb 5 was a success with a participation rate of 80% in both the private and the public sector. In a joint statement, the most representative four […]