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Morocco’s Textile Sector Faces Reckoning as Exports Slide 6.5%

Morocco’s foreign trade figures for the first half of 2026 reveal a widening gap between the country’s fastest-growing industries and its historic textile and leather sector. According to Morocco’s Foreign Exchange Office, overall exports rose by a robust 9.7% year-on-year, even as textile and leather shipments fell 6.5%, a decline representing a net loss of […]

King Mohammed VI spearheads Morocco’s social protection effort

King Mohammed VI has spurred a national program that puts the promotion and generalization of social safety nets at the heart of the country’s development model and as a lever of social cohesion. Under orders from the King, the government has gradually rolled out a social protection program that includes mandatory health coverage for all […]

Egypt’s Constitutional Referendum and the Fiscal Troubles Hampering IMF Loan Negotiations

Egypt’s Central Bank proclaimed their foreign reserves reaching the “critical” levels after it had sold about 75 million USD in its first private auction to banks, Bloomberg reports. Egypt’s foreign reserves are well below the levels prior to 2011 uprising against former President Mubarak, when the Central Bank commenced to support the Egyptian pound by […]