Benchabboune at news conference Rabat aug 4 2020

Royal religious lecture highlights spiritual bond between Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa

King Mohammed VI chaired a fifth Ramadan religious lecture highlighting the centuries-old religious, cultural, and human ties between the Maghreb region and Sub-Saharan Africa. In his lecture, Ousmane Kane, Professor of Islamic Thought at Harvard University in the United States of America, challenged the western narrative which tends to treat North Africa as a separate […]

Algeria’s bus tragedy reveals rot beneath the surface

When a 21-year-old bus plunged off a bridge into the Oued El Harrach on August 15, killing 18 and injuring 24, it didn’t just crash into a river, it sank into a lake of sewage that has been left untreated since the country’s independence. The site, long known for its toxic pollution and foul stench, […]

Morocco’s Economy Accelerates to 4.9% Growth in 2025, HCP Data Show

Morocco’s economy expanded at a faster pace in 2025, recording growth of 4.9 percent against 4.4 percent in the previous year, according to national accounts published by the Haut-Commissariat au Plan. The improvement was underpinned by resilient domestic demand and a marked deceleration in inflation, though the data also point to an increase in the […]