PJD leader-Abdelilah benkirane

Morocco’s trade deficit slows to 1.5% in 2019

Morocco’s trade deficit has slowed to 1.5% in 2019 partly due to a fall in energy imports and a rise in agricultural and automotive sector exports. The import bill was 491 billion dirhams while exports stood at 282 billion dirhams. Energy imports decreased 7.2%, representing 15.6% of all imports, thanks to lower prices in international […]

Morocco’s Foundation for Safeguarding Rabat’s Cultural Heritage Seals Partnership Deal with UNESCO

Princess Lalla Hasnaa, President of the Foundation for the Safeguarding of the Cultural Heritage of Rabat, chaired, on Tuesday in Paris, the signing ceremony of a five-year partnership agreement between the Foundation and UNESCO. The agreement was inked, in presence of UNESCO Chief Audrey Azoulay, by Ernesto Ottone, UNESCO Assistant Director-General and Nouzha Alaoui, Secretary […]

German Chancellor calls for reconsidering restrictive arms exports to Africa

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on her country’s lawmakers to rethink restrictive arms export policies towards Africa, arguing the restrictions are not in Germany’s best interest.   The chancellor, who was addressing the German parliament, the Bundestag, on Wednesday, made the case for more engagement in Africa’s Sahel region, where the threat of destabilization […]