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Morocco is carefully evaluating a Chinese proposal to launch free trade negotiations, as authorities weigh the potential benefits against risks to domestic industry and existing trade commitments, Industry and Trade Minister Ryad Mezzour said. China has formally suggested a bilateral free trade agreement, but Rabat is proceeding cautiously, conducting impact assessments before deciding whether to […]
Calls are intensifying for the Sahara issue to be withdrawn from the United Nations’ Special Committee on Decolonization (C24), with advocates arguing that recent diplomatic developments, including Security Council Resolution 2797, have fundamentally reframed the dispute as a political and regional question that should be settled on the basis of Morocco’s autonomy plan rather than […]
Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, co-chaired, Friday in New York, a high-level meeting of the UN Group of Friends on Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development, which focused on preparations for the first Global Dialogue on AI governance, slated for July 6–7 in Geneva, Switzerland. During the meeting, the Global Dialogue’s co-chairs- […]
Despite years of economic expansion, Morocco’s informal sector has proven stubbornly resistant to formalization — a phenomenon that two economists from the Policy Center for the New South attribute not to a lack of growth, but to a structural mismatch between the costs and benefits of formal status. In a recent discussion held at the […]
A coalition of Moroccan companies operating in the dietary supplement sector is calling on the government, political parties, and members of parliament to withdraw a modification to article 30 of pharmaceutical law 17-04, adopted in early June by the Chamber of Representatives and currently awaiting examination by the upper chamber, reported le360 news outlet. The […]
Morocco’s Direction des Domaines de l’Etat published its annual report for 2025, documenting significant expansion in the mobilization of state-owned land for productive investment. The agency approved 308 projects on a total of approximately 32,000 hectares of public land, representing a projected investment of 71 billion dirhams and the creation of 16,333 jobs. Ninety percent […]
King Mohammed VI has been represented at the funeral of Bernadette Chirac by his sister Princess Lalla Meryem. Upon her arrival at the Basilica of Sainte-Clotilde where the funeral service was held on Friday, Princess Lalla Meriem was greeted by Claude Chirac, daughter of the deceased, before taking her seat inside the church alongside France’s […]
UN Sahara envoy Staffan de Mistura has met with U.S. Senior Presidential Advisor Massad Boulos following the visit paid lately by the UN envoy to Tindouf Camps and his talks with Polisario leaders to advance the political process for the resolution of the Sahara regional conflict. On this occasion, the Trump administration has stressed again […]
LEONI Group is enhancing its presence in Morocco with the building of a new production site over a 35 000 m² area in Bouskoura, Casablanca suburbs. This is the 12th industrial unit of the automotive wiring and cable supplier in the Kingdom. The construction works were launched Thursday during a ceremony marked by the presence […]
Morocco’s National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) has secured up to €250 million in financing from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to modernize the country’s drinking water infrastructure and improve system performance under its 2025–2030 investment plan. The loan will support projects that cut water losses, enhance energy efficiency and strengthen […]