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Morocco moves further up in doing business index

Morocco improved its ranking jumping 7 spots in the World Bank’s 2020 Doing Business report to take the 53rd place amid 190 countries. According to the report, Morocco is the country offering the best business climate in North Africa ahead of Tunisia (78th), Egypt, Mauritania and Libya. Morocco’s closest neighbor, oil-rich Algeria, continued to lag […]

Moroccan Press Union gives lesson to biased rights NGOs

The Union of the Moroccan press, an independent body grouping Moroccan journalists, released a statement in which it called for a fair trial for Omar Radi and Hafsa Boutahar who accused him of rape. Unlike biased Rights NGOs like Morocco’s AMDH, RSF, Amnesty, and HRW, the National Union of the Moroccan press listened to both […]

African Union: Fathallah Sijilmassi, 1st Director General of AU Commission

Moroccan diplomat Fathallah Sijilmassi has become the first Director General of the African Union Commission, a new position set up by the AU summit held in Addis Ababa in 2018. Sijlimassi was picked up for the job after undergoing a rigorous selection process based on transparence and merit. His new mission includes the coordination between […]