Morocco’s only refinery has been idle since 2015 over unpaid taxes and legal hurdles, leaving the country prey to dependence on refined oil imports and fluctuations in the international markets. Calls for reactivating the idle Samir refinery in Mohammedia become more acute as fuel prices more than doubled compared to last year, due to a […]
King Mohammed VI wound up on Thursday his official visit to Tanzania, second leg of his East-African tour that previously took him to Rwanda. The Sovereign was also due to visit Ethiopia, but this third and last leg of the tour in East Africa has been “postponed” and not canceled, as reported by some media […]
The World Bank has approved a $450 million loan to support Morocco’s long-term strategy to strengthen human capital and fund the 3rd phase of the country’s National Initiative for Human Development, focusing on early childhood development (ECD). “Morocco’s future social and economic trajectory is conditioned by improving its ability to accelerate progress in accumulating human […]
