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American technology leader Oracle, specializing in enterprise software, cloud computing, and database systems, has opened its second Research & Development center in Morocco. Located in Agadir, the new facility builds on Oracle’s R&D hub launched last year in Casablanca. The two centers support Morocco’s drive to advance world-class AI and cloud technologies to serve global […]
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region should treat its current wave of geopolitical, economic, and technological shocks as an opportunity to rethink growth models and accelerate structural reforms, according to Jihad Azour, director of the International Monetary Fund’s Middle East and Central Asia department. Speaking Monday in Rabat at the opening of the […]
The United States and Morocco are preparing a significant expansion of their military partnership under a new 2026–2036 roadmap that emphasizes drone warfare, artificial intelligence and deeper operational integration, according to details from a U.S. planning document cited by Moroccan media. The plan envisages a shift toward “all-domain” operations, with Morocco set to host a […]
Morocco has taken a further step in the digital transformation of its foreign trade administration with the launch of a new online service enabling importers to submit customs documentation and sanitary and phytosanitary data directly through the Moroccan Portal for Foreign Trade Procedures, PortNet. The initiative is a joint development between PortNet and the National […]
The Atlantic Initiative launched by His Majesty King Mohammed VI opens promising prospects for strengthening economic connectivity and investment between West Africa and the rest of the continent, as well as with international markets, Speaker of the Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Mémounatou Ibrahima, said on Friday in Marrakech. Speaking […]
South Korea is aiming to conclude a comprehensive economic partnership agreement with Morocco by mid-2027, its trade minister said, citing the need to improve competitiveness for Korean firms operating in the North African market. Current tariff structures put Korean companies at a disadvantage, limiting their ability to use Morocco as a manufacturing base for exports […]
Construction of Morocco’s Dakhla Atlantique port complex has reached 62% completion, project director Nisrine Iouzzi said, highlighting progress on a major offshore project set to boost regional trade and support emerging energy industries. The port, designed as an island facility in open sea, is planned to serve as a key maritime and logistics hub linking […]
Morocco’s cereal harvest is projected to reach 90 million quintals in the 2026 season, including 44 million quintals of soft wheat, Agriculture Minister Ahmed El Bouari said. Speaking before the upper house of parliament, El Bouari said the crop would also include 21 million quintals of durum wheat and 25 million quintals of barley. Collection […]
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 […]
The 10th edition of Casablanca Smart City, held under the theme of the Augmented Smart City, placed entrepreneurship, urban creativity, and the mobilization of talent at the center of its second day of proceedings. Over ten editions since its launch in 2016, the event has brought together more than 42,000 participants, 685 exhibitors, 661 speakers, […]