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Morocco’s Fossil Sites Yield World-Class Discoveries — and Suffer Irreversible Looting

Abderrazak El Albani, a Marrakech-born geologist and professor at the University of Poitiers, has published a book recounting the journey that began with a 2010 paper in Nature — a paper that unsettled a consensus the scientific community had treated as settled for decades. His team’s research in the Gabonese Franceville basin established that multicellular […]

Morocco’s trade deficit eases 23.1%, tourism receipts halve

Morocco’s trade deficit shrunk 23.1% as the pandemic lowered both imports and exports with tourism being the worst hit sector. Tourism revenues dropped 53.8% to 36.3 billion dirhams from 70.7 billion dirhams in 2019 when Morocco received 13 million people. Imports bill dropped 14% thanks in particular to lower energy imports and fewer equipment imports […]

Portugal explores Morocco power link after Iberian blackout

Three months after a massive power outage plunged the Iberian Peninsula into darkness, Portugal unveiled Monday a €400 million plan to reinforce its electrical grid—and floated the possibility of connecting to Morocco’s power network. Environment Minister Maria da Graça Carvalho announced 31 measures designed to prevent future blackouts, reassuring citizens that not all costs would […]