Category: Emerging Markets

Morocco offers subordinated debt to encourage private investors

March 6, 2024

Morocco’s Mohammed VI Investment Fund and Moroccan banks (GPBM) signed a deal to allow private investors access to subordinated debt. The fund said it will ... Read More

Somalia officially joins East African Community

March 6, 2024

Somalia has finished the process of becoming a fully-fledged member of the East African Community (EAC) after it has ratified the accession treaty to an ... Read More

UNGA: Morocco’s Ambassador to Co-facilitate 2025 World Social Summit

March 6, 2024

The President of the United Nations General Assembly, Dennis Francis, has designated Morocco’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, to co-facilitate the UN negotiation ... Read More

Spain interested in Morocco’s rail projects offering huge opportunities to investors

March 5, 2024

Spain, which is one of Morocco’s key economic & political strategic partners, looks forward to the railway projects launched by the North African Kingdom to ... Read More

Morocco’s Managem to raise capital to finance expansion plans

March 5, 2024

Morocco’s biggest mining company Managem plans to raise 3 billion dirhams (300 million dollars) to finance its expansion plans in Morocco and Africa. The company ... Read More

AfCFTA, ECOWAS lament low trade volume among members and Africa’s low global trade share

March 5, 2024

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has so far failed to boost Africa's global trade participation that still stands at a mere 3%, according ... Read More

GCC commends Moroccan King’s Atlantic African Initiative, welcomes Morocco’s reform projects

March 3, 2024

Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi, commended the Atlantic African Initiative launched by King Mohammed VI for Sahel States. The ... Read More

GCC countries reaffirm steadfast support for Morocco’s sovereignty over its Sahara, preservation of its peace & security

March 3, 2024

Foreign Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries reaffirmed, Sunday, the unwavering positions, and steadfast decisions of the GCC Supreme Council supporting the Moroccan ... Read More

Canada’s Shimco to set up plant in Morocco’s aerospace industry hub

March 2, 2024

Canada’s Shimco, a manufacturer serving the global aerospace supply chain, said it plans to have a plant in Morocco. A deal was signed to that ... Read More

Morocco’s OCP posts $9.1 bln revenue in 2023

March 2, 2024

Morocco’s phosphates and fertilizer giant, OCP, said its revenue in 2023 dropped to $9.1 billion from $11.3 billion a year earlier due to lower prices ... Read More