Once a peripheral actor, the North African kingdom has positioned itself as a reliable manufacturing and logistics hub, attracting sustained foreign investment and forging deep ties with global aerospace giants. Moroccan aerospace exports reached 26.4 billion dirhams ($3bn) in 2024, up 14.9% year-on-year, with assembly operations alone expanding by 23.6%. The figures mark a continuation […]
Tunisia’s constitutional assembly voted earlier this week to enshrine gender equality in its draft constitution, upholding the country’s status as having one of the Arab world’s most progressive laws on women’s right. The text enshrining the equality between men and women was approved by a large majority of 159 lawmakers out of the 169 who […]
The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), which is convening its 137th General Assembly in St. Petersburg, Russia, has approved Morocco’s proposal to include on the agenda an emergency item on the ongoing humanitarian crisis of the Rohingya, Burma’s Muslim minority. The Moroccan proposal, supported by Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Iran, Sudan and Turkey, won […]
