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Morocco’s gross domestic product is set to grow two-fold to 222 billion dollars in the upcoming 14 years boosted by a growth rate exceeding 4%, the UK’s Center for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) said in a recent study. Over the next five years, the annual rate of GDP growth is set to accelerate […]
Italy’s La-Luce newspaper has named former and late Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi “personality of the year 2019” for his sacrifice for democracy”. The media last week published the picture of the former leader on its cover with the description: Uomo Dell’ Anno 2019 (The man of year 2019). The paper said it handed the recognition […]
Chefchaouen, the blue pearl in northern Morocco, was described by the Daily Mail as the World’s most instagrammable city where tourism has changed the lives of the locals. The hashtag ‘Chefchaouen’ has currently garnered over 620,000 posts on Instagram and its popularity is showing no signs of slowing down, the Daily Mail added. The […]
Morocco’s national railway operator ONCF has received lately the first of 30 Prima M4 locomotives being manufactured by the French Alstom company under a €130 million deal concluded in 2018 between the two sides. The Prima M4 locomotives have a nominal power of 5.5 MW. The maximum running speed is 160km/h. Being electric, the M4 […]
Morocco’s navy will be bolstered with the acquisition of two Spanish patrol boats made by Navantia, state-owned shipbuilding company, which offers its services to both military and civil sector. The deal, worth €260 million, was reported by Far-Maroc, a website specializing in Moroccan defense news. “Morocco is in a pressing need of patrol boats of […]
Morocco and the European Union will conduct a joint study on the harmonization of Moroccan and EU economic and competition laws. A partnership in this regard will be concluded between the Moroccan Competition Council and the EU delegation in Morocco, the council said in a statement at the end of its fourth ordinary session. […]
Morocco took a series of measures to fight tax evasion, which would eventually lead to taking the country off the EU’s so called tax haven grey list. Morocco will no longer be part of that list starting January 2020, local media La vie Eco reported, citing the multiple efforts by the country to improve financial […]
Morocco has won international recognition for its steady efforts to eradicate torture domestically and internationally. Morocco ratified the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) in 1993 and deposited its ratification instruments in 2014. The North African country has also launched a national preventive mechanism against torture (NPM). […]
Moroccan authorities announced on Tuesday the arrest of eight people linked to a criminal network involved in illegal immigration and human trafficking. Search carried out by the police in their houses led to the seizure of foreign residence permit cards, fake visas, passports of illicit migration seekers, electronic devices, mobile phones, stamps and three cars, […]
The European Union is going to deliver 1,300 vehicles to Morocco to help the country monitor its coasts within the frame of “border control program”, reported on Monday Spanish news agency EFE. The first batch of these vehicles arrived lately in Morocco, said EFE citing a Moroccan official. Morocco will receive 111 4×4 off-road vehicles […]