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Morocco to tighten anti-Money laundering measures

Morocco has adopted a new law to fight money laundering which enables tracking and seizing funds acquired illicitly in line with FAFTA jurisdictions. This law helped the country leave the grey FAFTA list and strengthen its legal arsenal to address strategic deficiencies in its regimes to counter money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing The […]

Mali: Former Islamic Police Chief receives decade-long sentence for war crimes

The International Criminal Court has issued a 10-year prison sentence to Al-Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud for war crimes committed during his leadership of Timbuktu’s Islamic police. The 47-year-old defendant was found guilty of orchestrating torture and overseeing brutal punishments during the 2012 occupation by the Ansar Dine group. While convicted of […]

EBRD Invested €895 Million in Morocco in 2025

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development invested in Morocco €895 million in 2025, up from €530 million in 2024. Thirty-three per cent of this investment went to the private sector and over 80 % was green finance. In its report on investments injected last year in the southern and eastern Mediterranean (SEMED) region, the Bank said […]