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Jet Contractors Secures 156 Million Dirham Contract for Sijilmassa Archaeological Site

Jet Contractors, a construction company listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange, has won the contract to build a protection and valorization center at the Sijilmassa archaeological site. The Culture Ministry selected the firm following an international tender process in which Jet Contractors competed against TGCC, another listed construction company. Jet Contractors submitted the most economically […]

Revolution Makes States : The Maghreb Inches Forward (Too) Slowly

Over the past weekend, the Ukrainian government was ousted, Ukraine’s parliament reinstated the 2004 constitution and former President Victor Yanukovich is on the run in Russia. One might be forgiven to think of these developments in isolation. But it is in fact a reminder that reactionary regimes rarely deliver the sort of stability they are […]

Egypt: Approval of IMF recommendation for bigger role of private sector

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday approved a document outlining 62 economic activities the state will withdraw from and turn over to the private sector, a cabinet statement said. The document’s approval was required by the International Monetary Fund, which this month approved a $3 billion financial support package for Egypt. The statement said […]