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US has exported more gas to Spain than Algeria so far this year as new players seek a foothold in the Spanish gas market. Spanish authorities have often complained at the insufficient gas flow through the Medgaz pipeline which couldn’t match the amount the Spanish market was receiving through the Maghreb-Europe pipeline that used to […]
The Russia-Ukraine war is reshaping the global trade & supply chain as Western nations have imposed severe economic and financial sanctions on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine. Morocco is the 3rd supplier of fertilizers to Brazil after Russia and Belarus. To avoid a shortage of the nutrients due to the international sanctions and escalating […]
The Moroccan carrier Royal Air Maroc inaugurated, this Sunday, March 13, 2022, the first direct flight of its regular line linking Casablanca to Tel Aviv. To celebrate this event, a Moroccan delegation made up of economic operators and other personalities were aboard the plane of the inaugural trip to take part in a series of […]
The United States government, through AFRICOM, donated two field hospital systems to Morocco’s Ministry of Health at a ceremony held Friday at the Ministry of Health’s logistics depot in Salé. The first system is a five-bed Intensive Care Unit valued at $960,000 and the second system is a mobile emergency room valued at $700,000. These […]
Mauritania and Morocco held their 8th High Joint Commission, during which officials from the two countries voiced strong willingness to unlock bilateral cooperation prospects. The event was co-chaired by the head of the Moroccan government, Aziz Akhannouch, and the Mauritanian Prime Minister, Mohamed Ould Bilal in Rabat Friday. Speaking at the opening of the event, […]
Tunisians are suffering from a shortage of basic foodstuff which the President ascribed to food profiteering and speculators. In the wake of soaring food prices in international markets, president Kais Saied said in a presidency statement that he was launching a “relentless war on speculators and criminals.” Food speculators could face heavy prison sentences as […]
The war in Ukraine will not affect Morocco’s wheat supply but will have an impact on prices, said government spokesman Mustapha Baitas. Morocco has a diversified wheat basket with Russia and Ukraine representing 25% and 11% of Moroccan supplies respectively, he said. Morocco does not import hard wheat from the two Black Sea markets, he […]
Mauritanian Prime Minister Mohamed Ould Bilal started Thursday a working visit to Morocco, during which he will co-chair with the Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch, the eighth session of the Moroccan-Mauritanian High Joint Commission. The eighth session of the Moroccan-Mauritanian High Joint Commission, to be held Friday, will open new prospects for the consolidation of […]
European Union Commissioner for Neighborhood & Enlargement Olivér Várhelyi has voiced the European bloc’s readiness to support Moroccan small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). “We are ready to cooperate with you, especially in green energy transition, trade facilitation, digitalization and support for SMEs,” said Mr. Várhelyi during a meeting held Wednesday in Rabat with Head of […]
Morocco’s central bank, Bank Al-Maghrib, and the World Bank announced on Tuesday the launch of the City-Tour concept, an innovative training-action to improve access to financial services. The City-Tour concept, launched in the framework of the Greenback Initiative Morocco, consists in organizing guided tours to financial services agencies for the benefit of potential users, supervised […]