The year 2019 has wrapped up with promises of landmark reforms to be carried out in 2020, a year before 2021 elections. In 2019, King Mohammed VI urged the implementation of decentralization, a new development model and an efficient government. It was also a year to celebrate Morocco’s improvement in the doing business index, its […]
The 49 Ivorian soldiers arrested in Mali, in July, described as “mercenaries”, then charged in mid-August with “attempt to undermine the external security of the State” and imprisoned, have been pardoned by President Col. Assimi Goïta. Three of them, women, were released in mid-September. The pardon comes one week after 46 of the soldiers were […]
Spanish Socialist Prime minister Pedro Sanchez arrived this Monday in Morocco on his first official visit to the neighboring country since he took office in June. Pedro Sanchez is accompanied during this trip by Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska and will meet his Moroccan peer Saâd-Eddine El Othmani. Talks will focus on issues related to security […]
