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Morocco: Government expects growth to improve to 4.5% in 2023

The Moroccan government is elaborating a budget bill forecasting growth at 4.5% in 2023 after 1.5% in 2021, assuming an average agricultural output. Growth has decelerated in 2021 as the country faces the worst drought in decades, coupled with imported inflation pressures affecting the trade balance due to higher energy imports. The 2023 growth forecast […]

Algeria’s self-defeating gas strategy

Algeria’s decision to cut gas supplies to Morocco, Spain and Portugal through the Maghreb-Europe pipeline came to no surprise in view of the counter-intuitive and self-harming decisions taken by the Algerian military rulers in recent years. The decision was announced by Algeria’s official news agency two days after Algiers unilaterally cut diplomatic ties with Rabat […]

Qatari-Saudi rapprochement vindicates Morocco’s principled foreign policy stands

The breakthrough in the Gulf Cooperation Council with the resumption of normal ties between Saudi Arabia and Qatar vindicates Morocco’s wise diplomacy and its neutral stance vis-a-vis the Qatar blockade by its neighbors. The restoration of normal diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia and Qatar came after the reopening of Borders and was further sealed at […]