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South African Bank, Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), issued the sixth edition of its report “Where to Invest in Africa”, ranking Morocco third most attractive investment destination in Africa. Morocco came third in the ranking preceded by Egypt and South Africa in the report, which aims to serve as a guide to corporate investment. According to […]
Thirteen Moroccan associations benefited this year from a $10 Million grant donated by the U.S. Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) program. According to MEPI regional director Manu Bhalla, the US financial assistance helps the beneficiary Associations carryout their projects seeking to create job opportunities for disabled persons, former prisoners and support entrepreneurship initiatives. For Mrs. […]
Moroccan firm, MEDASYS, built Morocco’s first Data Center with the aim of offering an information hub conducive to fostering the country’s cyber security. The 100% Moroccan project is part of MEDASYS strategy to develop data centers in Morocco and Africa. The Center spans over a surface area of 2,000 square meters in Temara, 8 Km […]
Leading Moroccan bank, Attijariwafa Bank, is expecting its newly acquired Egyptian unit to be its major growth driver in coming years and is planning to expand its operations by adding new branches and hiring staff. The bank anticipates that the Egyptian operation will contribute 12% to 14% of its net income in 2018, with revenue […]
Morocco’s triumphal return to the African Union, its south-south cooperation endeavour and the paralysis plaguing the Maghreb as well as its efforts to find a lasting settlement to the artificial dispute over the Sahara were salient features in the speech delivered by Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita before the UN General Assembly. Bourita recalled that Morocco’s […]
Morocco, which puts counterterrorism at the top of its priorities, has been re-elected along with the Netherlands to the co-Chairmanship of the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) for another two-year mandate. The decision was made during the 8th GCTF ministerial plenary meeting convened Wednesday in New York. Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita said the extension of […]
Morocco gave strong guarantees that it will not allow any breach of the security of the road linking it to West African states and that it ensures that road safety is respected. Speaking in response to fallacious information spread by Algerian co-opted media, Morocco’s foreign minister Nasser Bourita said in New York that the Kingdom […]
Abdelhak Khiame, Head of Morocco’s counterterrorism agency, the Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), said that the Kingdom is working on a new strategy to track Moroccans who become radicalized in Europe as part of beefed-up counterterrorism measures. In an interview with the Associated Press, Khiame noted that the crackdown on radicalized individuals abroad comes […]
In honoring the pledges made during the COP22 Climate Summit in Marrakech, Morocco hosted on the sidelines of the 72nd UN General Assembly in New York a meeting dedicated to promote south-south climate cooperation. The meeting was jointly organized with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and was attended by several public […]
Morocco, acting chair of the UN Peacebuilding commission, has called for the reinforcement of the capacities of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). The call was made by Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita during a high-level meeting held Tuesday in New York on the situation in the Central […]