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Maroc PME plans to launch new programs targeting very small, small, and medium enterprises as part of a new framework announced by the Ministry of Economic Inclusion, Small Enterprise, Employment, and Skills. Alaoui Ismaili, President of Maroc PME, has detailed the changes and advantages that the new Responsible SME Label from CGEM will bring to […]
Morocco has established itself as a major automotive manufacturing hub, with French newspaper “Le Dauphiné libéré” describing the North African country as “the new Eldorado” for automakers. The automotive sector has become a pillar of Morocco’s economy and its leading export industry. Renault leads French investment in Morocco, operating the world’s largest Renault factory in […]
Morocco and Slovakia have discussed at a meeting in Rabat Thursday ways of strengthening their cooperation in the defense industry. The meeting gathered Morocco’s Minister in charge of the National Defense Administration, Abdeltif Loudyi, and Slovak Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Robert Kaliňák, who was accompanied by a high-level military delegation and senior […]
The Morocco-proposed Autonomy Initiative constitutes the political and institutional foundation of the ongoing development dynamics in the Moroccan Sahara. The remarks were made by Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, before the seminar of the UN Committee of 24 for the Pacific, held in Dili, Timor Leste from May 21 to 23. […]
Cooperation between Morocco and the UN mission in the Sahara, MINURSO, was reviewed at a meeting held Thursday between Lieutenant General Mohammed Berrid, FAR Inspector General and Commander of the Southern Zone, and Major General Fakhrul Ahsan, Force Commander of the UN Mission in the Kingdom’s Southern Provinces. The meeting, held at the South Zone […]
Morocco will allocate 3 billion dirhams this year and 3.2 billion next year, or a total of 670 million dollars to restore its national herd, including through financial support to farmers, agriculture minister Ahmed El Bouari said. Under this program, the government will earmark 700 million dirhams to restructure and cancel debt owed to 50,000 […]
A strategic conference held in Rabat Thursday focused on the maritime strategic challenges of Atlantic Africa. The event comes months after King Mohammed VI launched the Atlantic Initiative in November 2023, outlining an ambitious geopolitical project at the intersection of sovereignty, development, and regional integration. The conference, organized by the Policy Center for the New […]
The Republic of Slovakia has voiced firm support for the Autonomy plan offered by Morocco under its sovereignty, saying the plan is a basis for reaching a definitive solution to the Sahara regional conflict. The supportive stand comes in a joint statement issued Thursday in Rabat following the meeting of Slovak foreign minister Juraj Blanár […]
Morocco’s multidimensional poverty rate has nearly halved over the past decade, driven by significant improvements in rural areas, according to a new report by the national statistics agency, the Haut-Commissariat au Plan (HCP) said. The share of the population living in multidimensional poverty fell from 11.9% in 2014 to 6.8% in 2024, with the number […]
Gotion Power Morocco, part of the EV battery giant Gotion High-Tech, will start producing at its gigafactory in Kenitra by the third quarter of 2026, company chairman Khalid Qalam said. In June last year, the Moroccan government unveiled an investment deal with Gotion High Tech worth $6.3 billion, including $1.3 billion in a first phase, […]