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Morocco: Consumer Boycott Costs Centrale Danone 150 mln DH in Losses

Moroccan subsidiary of French diary company Centrale Danone has announced heavy losses estimated at 150 million Dirham for the first half of the year due to a continuing consumer boycott. The boycott was launched on April 20 and caused the company to suffer a steep deficit after posting 56 million Dirham profits the same period […]

Moroccan companies bid to build Casablanca’s desalination plant

Morocco’s water department plans to announce the company that would build Casablanca’s desalination plant by year’s end, water and equipment minister Nizar Baraka said, adding that the competing companies include Moroccan ones. Consecutive droughts emptied many Moroccan dams pushing the government to invest in desalination to free dam water for inner regions. By 2030, Morocco […]

Ceuta before Iberian colonialism, a Moroccan city and no terra nullius

Spanish commentators and intellectuals have recently repeated that when Portugal seized Ceuta in 1415, “Morocco did not exist.” The argument transforms a military conquest into the occupation of an empty space, free of political ownership or historical continuity. So as to deny Morocco its historical right to its northern cities, the solution is to make […]