First Independent Mena Newspaper
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper is expected to start this week a tour of the Maghreb to discuss military and security cooperation with leaders of countries of this region, according to press reports. The tour includes stops in Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. In Tunisia, the US official will meet on Wednesday with President Qais Saied […]
Finance Minister Mohamed Benchaaboun said the economic impact of the coronavirus will continue to reverberate in 2021 as the government faces prospects of a sharp drop in revenue and higher spending. Tax revenue is expected to fall by 25 billion dirhams while additional spending should be mobilized to fund social landmark projects such as the […]
Morocco is expanding its testing capacity for Covid-19 by opening the door for laboratories to test for the virus provided they respect a set of requirements. Morocco, which so far tested 2.58 million people for the virus, had earlier this month allowed 18 private laboratories across Morocco to test for the coronavirus to alleviate the […]
Casablanca Finance City (CFC) has been ranked 46th in the 2020 Global Financial Centre Index (GFCI) which evaluates the competitiveness and performance of world leading financial centers. Last year, CFC was ranked 41th among the global financial hubs. Although it dropped this year five places due to several regional and international factors, Casablanca remains the […]
OCP Africa and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, have announced this Monday a partnership to strengthen value chains of rice in Côte d’Ivoire and millet in Senegal, and to help improve the living conditions of thousands of smallholder farmers. These crops, essential to ensure food security in these […]
Morocco reiterated its deep concern regarding the suffering inflicted on thousands of Sahraouis held against their will by the Polisario militias in southwestern Algeria amid the pandemic outbreak. Speaking to the UN general assembly, head of the Government Saad Eddine El Othmani deplored that the Moroccan Sahraouis in Tindouf were left to the mercy of […]
Morocco’s Interior Ministry said that mayorships and elected officials are banned from using charity for electoral purposes, Assabah daily reported. The move aims at preventing elected officials from using the suffering of poor people through charity in order to wage electoral campaigns, in a move that would lift the rug from under the feat of […]
Morocco has reaffirmed its commitment to a final solution to the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara, within the framework of its territorial integrity and national sovereignty. This came in the address the Head of Government Saad Eddine El Othmani made to the UN General Assembly on Saturday. Reiterating Morocco’s commitment to finding a political […]
UN top official in Libya, Stephanie Williams, reaffirmed her support for Morocco’s mediation efforts which enabled a breakthrough earlier this month after Libya’s rival administrations reached key agreement on sovereign institution as a prelude for a wider political agreement that would put an end to the in-fighting in the oil-rich country. The UN official who […]
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday warned the Polisario separatists against obstructing regular civil and commercial traffic in the Guerguerat buffer zone, in reaction to the front’s recent moves in the town on the Morocco-Mauritania border. In a statement on behalf of UN Chief, his deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq said that the UN has […]