Category: Morocco

Morocco’s Strategic Investment Fund to give priority to productive activities

August 12, 2020

The $4.8 billion strategic investment fund, set up part of a stimulus package of 120 billion dirhams ($12.8 bln) to help the economy recover from ... Read More

OCP partners with Budenheim and Prayon to double phosphoric acid production

August 11, 2020

Morocco’s phosphates and fertilizer producer, OCP, partnered with German and Belgian partners, Budenheim and Prayon, to build a new plant for the production of purified ... Read More

Post-Covid: Moroccan CIH bank gets €40 Mln EBRD loan to support local businesses

August 11, 2020

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) approved on Tuesday a €40 million loan package to Moroccan bank “Crédit Immobilier et Hôtelier” to enable ... Read More

Canada’s Aya Company to expand Moroccan silver mine of Zgounder

August 11, 2020

Canadian mining company Aya Gold & Silver has launched lately the feasibility study for the expansion of the Moroccan Zgounder Silver Mine, near Ouarzazate. AYA ... Read More

Morocco foils illegal migration attempt in El Jadida, arrests two smugglers

August 10, 2020

Morocco’s police foiled on Monday an illegal migration operation in the Atlantic coastal city of El Jadida and arrested two smugglers of people aged respectively ... Read More

Morocco: Boxer Youssef Zalal wins a string of victories at the UFC

August 10, 2020

Moroccan boxer Youssef Zalal defeated American Peter Barrett by unanimous decision of the judges on August 8, 2020 in Las Vegas, at an event organized ... Read More

Coronavirus hit Tangier premier league club

August 10, 2020

Twenty-three members of Ittihad Tangier, a first league soccer club, caught the coronavirus casting doubt on the team’s chances in the national and continental football ... Read More

Surge in Coronavirus cases costs Morocco its place in EU safe travel list

August 9, 2020

The EU removed Morocco from a safe destination list for non-essential travel after coronavirus cases spiked in the North African country to over 30,000. Morocco ... Read More

Sahara-Human Rights: Elected representatives debunk Polisario’s allegations

August 9, 2020

Presidents of Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra and Dakhla Oued Eddahab regions, Sidi Hamdi Ould Errachid and Yanja El Khattat, have debunked the slanderous allegations circulated by ... Read More

Moroccan cabinet approves setting up of strategic investment fund

August 8, 2020

The government council approved a decree setting up a strategic investment fund worth 45 billion dirhams to spur public-private investments. The fund is part of ... Read More