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Hyundai, South Korea’s KOICA to Supply Marrakech with 15 Electric Buses

Hyundai Motor will supply 15 Elec City electric buses to Marrakech under a development aid project run jointly with South Korea’s Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the city of Marrakech. The automaker announced the delivery Tuesday, a day after holding a handover ceremony at its Jeonju plant in Wanju County, North Jeolla Province, marking […]

Scores of dead, dozens wounded in Mali bus blast amid escalating jihadi violence

An explosion killed at least eleven people and injured 53 on a bus in central Mali on Thursday (13 October), a region regularly rocked by jihadist violence, according to police and local sources. The blast occurred when the bus hit an explosive device and all the victims of the explosion were civilians, as per reports. […]

Growth Alone Will Not Shrink Morocco’s Informal Economy, PCNS Economists Warn

Despite years of economic expansion, Morocco’s informal sector has proven stubbornly resistant to formalization — a phenomenon that two economists from the Policy Center for the New South attribute not to a lack of growth, but to a structural mismatch between the costs and benefits of formal status. In a recent discussion held at the […]