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Global Firepower Index 2020: Morocco Moves up to 56th Rank

Morocco has improved its ranking in the 2020 global firepower index (GFP), which provides latest data on 138 military powers. The North African Kingdom has been ranked 56th powerful military in the world in 2020. In 2019, Morocco ranked 60th but this year, the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) moved upward gaining four spots. They ranked […]

Morocco Expects Growth Rate to Decrease to 3.2% in 2018

The Moroccan government released its GDP growth forecasts for 2018, which expects the economy to grow by 3.2% down from 4.8% this year. The Head of the Government office said in a statement that the forecasted rate is higher than the one announced by the government’s statistics agency (HCP), which said that Morocco’s economy will […]

HRW Denounces Algeria’s Detention of Pro-Autonomy Activists

Human Rights Watch has called on Algerian authorities “to release or try in a fair and open trial a pro-Amazigh activist, Kameleddine Fekhar, and his 24 co-defendants”. Fekhar has since 2013 called for autonomy of the Mzab, a northern Sahara region, and has condemned the Algerian government for “complicity in crimes against humanity by Sunni […]