Fitch Ratings has released a note recognizing the impact of the earthquake on Morocco’s fiscal deficit while reassuring remittances from Moroccans abroad and the IMF’s credit lines would offset liquidity concerns. The earthquake that struck late on September 8 killed some 3000 people and destroyed nearly 60,000 homes in the High Atlas Mountains. Morocco has […]
Major General Zia Ur Rehman of Pakistan has been appointed as Force Commander of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, the UN announced in a statement. Major General Ur Rehman succeeds Major General Xiaojun Wang of China, whose tour of duty ended on 17 […]
Moroccan authorities announced on Friday the arrest of six operatives of ISIS extremist group who were planning to carry out terrorist acts in the North African Kingdom. Aged between 24 and 37, the members of this jihadist cell were nabbed in the city of Beni Mellal by units of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation […]
