Moroccan city of Tangier

Morocco: Local & Regional Elections, a rendezvous with History

Some 14 million voters go to the polls this Friday September 4 to elect 31,503 members of communal councils and 678 representatives to sit at the newly created regional councils that are part of the regionalization process the country is set to embark on as stipulated by the Constitution adopted in 2011. These local and […]

Moroccan car manufacturer Neo Motors opens showroom in Rabat

Moroccan car manufacturer Neo Motors opened its first showroom in Rabat and started delivering vehicles to customers. Neo Motors is the first car maker in the Moroccan capital with factories near Rabat and a price tag starting at 175000 dirhams. Neo Motors plans to open 15 other showrooms across Morocco. Neo Motors’s Rabat factory has […]

Mauritania-Morocco: End of Tension between Nouakchott & Rabat?

A number of recent developments noticed both in Mauritania and Morocco have heralded normalization of diplomatic ties between the two Maghreb countries following a recent tension in their relations, after a change in Mauritania’s stand vis-à-vis the Polisario Front, which disputes Morocco’s sovereignty over the Western Sahara territory. One strong signal of a thaw in […]