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Morocco’s automotive sector exports doubled from 161 billion dirhams in 2013 to 240 billion dirhams in 2018, thus becoming Morocco’s leading exporting sector ahead of phosphates and agriculture. With more than 65.1 billion dirhams worth of exports, the automotive sector came ahead of phosphates and derivatives (43.4 billion dirhams), textile (38.6 billion dirhams) food industry […]
Head of the Moroccan government Saad Eddine El Othmani defended the results achieved by the PJD-led government over the last two years stressing on the performance of his cabinet to improve social and living conditions as well as economic indicators. However, much remains to be done to meet the aspirations of the Moroccan people, which […]
French judicial authorities announced this Monday that security services had seized on Friday 11 tons of cannabis in the region of Besancon. The record-setting dismantling operation was possible thanks to massive support from Moroccan and Spanish investigation teams. France, Morocco, and Spain have cooperated on various criminal investigations, but the latest is the biggest operation […]
The French Foreign Ministry’s updated travel warning states that areas at risk are expanding in Africa, on the backdrop of rising terrorist threats, and that only one country on the continent is considered “safe”: Morocco. This update comes after the kidnapping of French tourists in Benin and whose release in Burkina Faso resulted in the […]
Sensing the heat after Morocco scored successive diplomatic victories at the UN, Latin America, Europe and Africa, the Polisario separatist group, supported by Algeria, sent lately a delegation to Berlin in a bid to coax Germany as this country is seeking to obtain the veto rights at the UN Security Council and expand its international […]
The World Bank has approved a $55 million loan to Morocco to enable the country develop youth employability programs in the Marrakesh-Safi region within the frame of a new project destined to provide economic support to youths. This project will combine training for lower skilled youth, support potential entrepreneurs and investments in local businesses in […]
Police in Dublin have launched an investigation into the killing of a Moroccan teenager stabbed to death last week in Dublin, as he was in his way to mosque, Morocco World News reports. An unknown assailant attacked and stabbed Azzam Ragragui to death in the Irish capital, on Friday as the Moroccan young man was […]
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) announced it has signed last week a €14 million loan agreement with KMR Holding Pédagogique (KMR), a leading pan-african higher education provider, to expand medical training in Morocco and Senegal and increase the number of health professionals in the two countries. KMR will use the financing to set up Morocco’s […]
King Mohammed VI inaugurated Saturday in the Youssoufia neighborhood in Rabat a medical center, built by the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity for a global investment of 63 million dirhams. The hospital, which required a 63 million dirhams investment, translates the King’s resolve to reinforce the health offer via community-based and quality medical services that […]
Morocco’s royal navy rescued 117 migrants on May 10-11 on board dinghies, a military source told national news agency MAP. The migrants were rescued off Morocco’s Mediterranean coast and were taken to the ports of Ksar Sghir and Nador. Morocco came under pressure as the main gate for migrants looking to reach Europe. So far […]