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Casablanca-based Wydad Athletic Club have officially parted ways with international star Hakim Ziyech by mutual consent, bringing an abrupt end to a high-profile but short-lived chapter in the club’s history, Wydad said. Ziyech, 33, had joined Wydad in October 2025 as a free agent following his departure from Qatari side Al-Duhail. His arrival generated massive […]
Morocco’s Court of Cassation will decide in the coming months whether a bank commits a banking fault when its ATM retains a customer’s card, a question now before the country’s highest court after a bank appealed a ruling ordering it to compensate a client, Medias24 reports. The case, filed in May, stems from a lawsuit […]
Libya’s internationally recognised Government of National Unity announced on Sunday that it had dismantled an organised sabotage cell allegedly responsible for suicide drone attacks on oil and electricity facilities in Tripoli and Zawiya. Five Libyan and foreign nationals were arrested during an operation conducted by the Ministry of Defense, according to a statement published on […]
More than 75 percent of industrial AI pilot projects never reach large-scale deployment, and over 80 percent of manufacturers struggle to extend AI beyond isolated use cases, according to a report by Everest Group and Capgemini Engineering titled “Operationalizing Adaptive AI Across the Manufacturing Shopfloor,” relayed by Challenge magazine. For Morocco, where industry 4.0 ambitions […]
The Casablanca Stock Exchange returned to positive momentum in August after two months of consolidation, with the MASI index gaining 4.53 percent to 18,652.72 points, trimming its year-to-date decline to 1.03 percent, according to a research note from brokerage BKGR reported by Boursenews. The firm cautioned the rebound looks more like a normalization after months […]
Morocco produces dense, technologically sophisticated research on smart electrical grids, but that academic activity has yet to translate into a structural transformation of the country’s energy system, according to a systematic review by researchers at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), reported by Le Matin daily. Of 291 studies identified across four international scientific databases, 91 […]
Morocco’s banking sector is entering a period of deep change, driven by a new banking law, competition from neobanks and “super apps,” and shifting ownership structures, Aujourd’hui le Maroc reports. Bank Al-Maghrib’s board is set to hold its penultimate 2026 session this month, shortly after the publication of a new law amending the framework governing […]
The mass irregular crossings into Ceuta at the end of July 2026 have been transformed into a domestic political football in Spain. Opposition parties are competing in increasingly confrontational language that critics describe as warmongering, while indulging anti-Moroccan sentiment and reopening centuries-old territorial and historical wounds, often without presenting whatsoever evidence of high-level Moroccan state […]
Morocco has gained the support of another European country for its territorial integrity and sovereignty over its Sahara ahead of the upcoming UN Security Council meeting planned on Sahara by end of October. During his trip paid Friday to Copenhagen, Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita has secured the backing of his Danish peer Lars Løkke […]
Tunisia’s human rights situation has deteriorated dramatically five years after President Kais Saied seized extraordinary executive powers on 25 July 2021, Human Rights Watch said. What began as a slide toward authoritarianism has hardened into systematic repression targeting civil society organizations, journalists, political opponents, independent lawyers, and migrants, the organization said in an updated briefing […]