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Morocco: Olive Output Expected to Soar by 21 % this Season

The production of olives is expected to increase this year by 21 pc compared to last year crop, said on Tuesday minister of agriculture Mohamed Sadiki at the Parliament’s upper house (Senate). Morocco’s citrus out is also expected to go up by 14 pc this season compared to previous year harvest, added the minister, noting […]

Mali: at least 20 killed in attack on Ogossagou village

At least twenty villagers were massacred in an attack in the Malian village of Ogossagou, in the center of the country, medical sources said Friday. The assault was carried out overnight by around thirty armed men, a few hours after the Malian army withdrew from the locality. Twenty people were killed in an attack overnight […]

Monetary policy by itself not enough to ease inflation – Cent Bank governor says

Morocco’s central bank has hiked its key rates by 50 basis points to 2% to tame a soaring inflation, but this measure alone is not enough to tackle inflation according to central bank governor Abdellatif Jouahri. “The job of the central bank is monetary policy but growth is the job of the government,” he told […]