Arab foreign ministers meet during a regular session to discuss latest developments in Middle Eastern affairs, in Cairo

Morocco brings global tech platforms into VAT net as digital tax regime takes effect

Global digital platforms including TikTok, Apple, Google, OpenAI and Spotify have begun applying Morocco’s 20% value-added tax (VAT) to some services sold to Moroccan customers, providing the clearest sign yet that the country’s new regime for taxing digital services is taking effect. The changes are now appearing on invoices and transactions seen by Moroccan users, […]

Morocco to back China’s textile Sunrise group with $410 mln

Morocco will offer a financial aid to China’s textile giant Sunrise Group worth 410 million dollars, to help fund an industrial project that would employ 11,000 people. The news came following a visit by Akhannouch- who was in China to attend an Africa summit- to a Sunrise factory where he met officials from the Chinese […]

CIA Declassified Memo Confirms Moroccanness of Eastern Sahara

A declassified U.S. intelligence document recognizes the Moroccan sovereignty over the Eastern Sahara stretching from Hassi Beida (Bechar province) down to Tinjoub town (southern Mhamid Ghizlane) and holds France, the former colonial power, responsible for the territorial dispute between Morocco and Algeria. The Memo declassified by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 strengthens Morocco’s legal […]