Morocco’s tourist arrivals drop 78% in first nine months this year

Morocco’s tourism is counting the losses due to the coronavirus pandemic with the number of tourist arrivals plummeting by 78% to 2.2 million in the first nine months of this year. Tourism receipts, key to Morocco’s foreign exchange reserves, shrank 60% to 24.3 billion dirhams, the tourism minister Nadia Fettah Alaoui told MPs. The summer […]

Morocco’s Tax Authority to Use Big Data to Catch Cheaters

To detect tax fraud and counter tax evasion or avoidance, Moroccan Tax Administration (Direction Générale des Impôts or DGI) will use big data analytics for an efficient, transparent and accountable management. The DGI, equivalent of the US IRS, has launched lately a tender for the deployment of this computing system of artificial intelligence and machine […]

LIBYA: New PM to name government in a week

After the removal of Colonel Gadhafi from power in 2011 by the rebels with the help of the NATO forces, Libya has been vulnerable to attacks in recent years and as such the parliament is tasking the acting Prime minister, Abdullah al-Thinni, for a new cabinet. Al-Thinni is expected to  improve security in Libya. Thinni […]