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Morocco’s Economy to Grow 3.5% in 2020 after 2.3% in 2019

Morocco’s economy is seen growing to 3.5% in 2020 amid prospects of an average crop year, the high commission for planning said in its recent forecast. Affected by lower cereals production, economic growth shrunk to 2.3% in 2019, the agency said, while calling for gearing investments to productive sectors. A committee is currently holding consultations […]

Sahara: UN Petitioners Support Morocco’s Autonomy Plan, Decry Polisario’s Rights Violations & Ties with Terror Groups

Representatives of several NGOs, university professors and international law experts have voiced, at the United Nations, strong support to Morocco’s autonomy plan for a lasting solution to the Sahara conflict. The petitioners also denounced before the UN fourth Committee the ill-treatment, abuse and human rights violations committed in Tindouf Camps by Polisario militias having ties […]

Moroccan anthropologist appointed to Maurice Amade Chair in Sephardic Studies in University of California

Moroccan anthropologist Aomar Boum, a renowned scholar of Jewish culture, has been appointed to the Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Author and co-editor of four books, including “Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco,” and “The Holocaust and North Africa,” Boum is also a […]