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Morocco earmarks $1.4 bln to boost job creation in 2025

Morocco will spend 1.4 billion dollars next year to promote employment, including through different training programs and measures in the countryside, the head of the government said. Unemployment has surged in Morocco in recent years to hit an unprecedented 13.6% as drought forces the farming sector to shed more jobs in the countryside. The budget […]

Moroccan, Nigerien intelligence services free two Moroccan cyclists kidnapped in Burkina Faso

Moroccan and Nigerian intelligence services have freed two Moroccan cyclists who have been missing since the end of last March and who were actually kidnapped in Burkina Faso. The Moroccan security services succeeded, in collaboration with their Nigerien counterparts, in freeing on Saturday, May 13, the two Moroccan cyclists, Abderrahmane Serhani and Driss Fatihi who […]

Finland’s Wärtsilä to Install Power Plant in Morocco

The technology group Wärtsilä of Finland will supply a 22 MW baseload power plant to Morocco’s state utility (ONEE) under an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract. The main evaluation criterion for the project was the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) during an operating period of 20 years. LCOE measures the operating period costs divided […]