Category: Finance

Morocco: Cereal output expected to drop by 69%; agricultural GDP by 14% in 2022

May 15, 2022

The output of major cereals (soft wheat, durum wheat and barley), in the 2021/2022 agricultural campaign is expected to reach 32 million quintals (Mqx), a ... Read More

Palestine: EU, EIB announce €60 million business investment in Gaza

May 13, 2022

The European Investment Bank (EIB), a financial arm of the European Union (EU), announced Thursday it provides €60 billion ($62.58 billion) for economic development in ... Read More

Morocco on course to double private investments by 2035

May 13, 2022

Morocco wants private investors to take the lead in spurring economic growth by increasing their share in total investments in the country to two-thirds, Moroccan ... Read More

EBRD Lends € 40 Mln to Morocco’s Ports Agency for Climate Resilience

May 12, 2022

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) provides Moroccan Agence Nationale des Ports (ANP) a €40 million loan to enable the agency enhance climate ... Read More

Ukraine to top agenda of EBRD meeting in Marrakech

May 9, 2022

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is holding its first in-person annual meetings since 2019 in Marrakech with the war in Ukraine expected to ... Read More

Fathi Bashagha’s administration approves $20-bn draft budget

May 9, 2022

The cabinet of Fathi Bashagha; one of Libya’s current two Prime Ministers, has approved a draft budget of nearly 95 billion Libyan dinars ($20 billion) ... Read More

Morocco to raise minimum wage, social benefits for all workers

May 1, 2022

The Moroccan government, the federation of employers CGEM and main labor unions agreed to raise the minimum wage of workers in the public and private ... Read More

Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline: OPEC Fund to contribute $14.3 million to phase II of feasibility study

April 30, 2022

The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) will contribute $14.3 to the funding of the second phase of the Front-End Engineering Study (FEED) of the ... Read More

Morocco’s Holmarcom group takes control of Credit du Maroc Bank

April 28, 2022

Morocco’s Holmarcom group has taken control of Credit du Maroc, a subsidiary of French bank Credit Agricole. Holmarcom has bought all the 78.7% stakes owned ... Read More

WB-IMF Meetings: Rabat calls for rethinking global funding system

April 25, 2022

Moroccan Minister of Economy & Finance Ms. Nadia Fettah Alaoui, Chair of the African Caucus (formed of African finance ministers & central bank governors) has ... Read More