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Digital transformation is reshaping the global tourism industry from destination choice through to booking, and Morocco’s fast-growing sector is leaning on that shift to meet its 2030 ambitions, Finances News Hebdo reports. Moroccan tourism has never been more dynamic: after welcoming 17.4 million visitors in 2024, the Kingdom reached 19.8 million arrivals in 2025, confirming […]
Ignacio Cembrero no longer practices journalism. He practices activism directed against Morocco. The distinction matters, because the two professions obey different rules. A journalist is bound by verification, balance, sourcing and the separation of fact from opinion. An activist is free to select, amplify and interpret in service of a fixed narrative. Cembrero’s recent output, […]
Forms of political engagement among Morocco’s youth are shifting toward horizontal, decentralized structures shaped heavily by digital tools, according to the recent reports of Morocco’s Economic, Social, and Environmental Council (CESE). Recent youth mobilizations within student collective and spontaneous movements have relied increasingly on digital platforms such as Discord for organizing, coordinating and voicing demands, […]
Spanish far-right politicians, Polisario separatists, Algerian mouthpieces and Russian bots and certain Morocco phobic media figures have seized on the recent mass migrant crossings into the Spanish-occupied enclave of Ceuta to launch a coordinated campaign of disinformation and hostile coverage targeting Morocco, Spanish fact-checkers and international investigations show. Three weeks after tens of thousands of […]
Latin America, long viewed as one of the strongest bastions of political and diplomatic support for the Polisario Front, is undergoing a notable realignment, as Morocco gains ground. A growing number of countries in the region are distancing themselves from the separatist group and moving closer to Morocco’s position on the Sahara issue. In recent […]
Algerian state and private media have launched an extraordinary propaganda barrage against Morocco, pumping out roughly 3,900 articles, posts, and videos in the 21 days since the late-July Ceuta border events, according to a detailed monitoring by Moroccan outlet Assahifa. From 30 July to 19 August 2026, the average stood at about 186 Morocco-related items […]
A highly emotional testimony published by Spanish daily El País about a young Moroccan woman who swam into Ceuta during the mass crossings of late July has been sharply contradicted by her own social media history, which paints a picture of international travel, modelling work, and a comfortable urban lifestyle far removed from the narrative […]
Statements by Ramón Caudevilla, the former head of immigration management in the Spanish-occupied enclave of Ceuta (Sebta), have ignited debate over the handling of unaccompanied minors and irregular migration. Caudevilla, who led the department for 32 years until his retirement in January at age 65, shared his views in an interview with the Spanish newspaper […]
Morocco’s Youth Day, celebrated this Friday July 21, offers an occasion to take stock of King Mohammed VI’s long-standing focus on young people as a pillar of national development spanning education, employment, entrepreneurship, sport, culture, environment and civic participation. Since acceding to the throne, the King has framed investment in human capital as a condition […]
Morocco is repositioning itself in the European cruise tourism market, driven by the new Casablanca maritime terminal and the assets of Tangier and Agadir, according to an analysis by Finances News Hebdo. Benefiting from a strategic location at the crossroads of major maritime routes, the Kingdom combines internationally known port cities with cultural, historical and […]