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Algeria should brace for end of oil

As pro-democracy protests continue to rattle the Algerian regime, Algeria marches ahead to an economic disaster as domestic energy consumptions nears levels of gas and oil production. Since 2007, Algeria’s consumption of oil and natural gas has risen by more than 50 percent while its oil production has fallen by 25 percent. With less oil […]

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On Morocco’s increasing role in global food security

There is no exaggeration in saying that Morocco will play an increasingly important role in the world’s food security as the country sits on the globe’s largest phosphates deposits, key to the fertilizers’ industry. Modern agriculture has become more than ever dependent on phosphorus derived from phosphate rock, a non-renewable resource. Morocco as the country […]

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King Mohammed VI reasserts Morocco’s neighborliness in Maghreb

Since taking the reign in Morocco, King Mohammed VI, who visited Algeria, has adopted an outstretched hand policy towards Algeria with the aim of building a strong regional union in the Maghreb at a world where regional grouping and integration are more important than ever. In past speeches, reinvigorating the Maghreb Union made up of […]

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Morocco’s pro-active diplomacy under reign of King Mohammed VI

Moroccan foreign policy under the leadership of King Mohammed VI reflects the achievements made at home in the fields of infrastructure, energy as well as strengthening the rule of law and democracy bringing Morocco ever close to its traditional allies and to its new friends and partners. King Mohammed VI put Morocco on the path […]

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After King’s call, Government speeds up regionalization process

After King Mohammed VI has called for speeding up advanced regionalization and administrative devolution in his latest speech, the Government is reportedly busy finalizing the master plans for the transfer of powers from the central to the regional administrations. According to local media, the Executive has reached the “final stages” in materializing the transfer of […]

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The New Morocco sought by King Mohammed VI

King Mohammed VI has put Morocco on track of social and economic development with the first twenty years of projects resulting in improved infrastructure but much remains to be done as the monarch himself stressed in his two recent speeches putting the country in a new trajectory of reforms to reduce disparities and improve public […]

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King Mohammed VI Outlines Morocco’s New Development Model as Key Growth Driver

King Mohammed VI drew up on Tuesday the broad lines of Morocco’s new development model, which will be the driving force of inclusive growth, social equity and sustainable development.   In his speech to the Nation marking the 66th anniversary of the Revolution of the King and the People, the Monarch shed more light on […]

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Advanced Regionalization to Give Momentum to Productive Investment Projects – King

King Mohammed VI has pointed out Tuesday that advanced regionalization and administrative devolution would give a new momentum to local productive investment projects, deploring the fact that despite the efforts made and the legislation adopted, many matters are still being dealt with in Rabat, at central government level.   Because of the slow pace in […]

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King renews call to develop, support rural world

King Mohammed VI on Tuesday renewed the call to promote the development in the rural areas, support the inhabitants of these areas and respond to their pressing needs, as the segments of Moroccan society most affected by difficult living conditions reside, for the most part, in rural areas and in the suburbs.   “I have […]

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King Mohammed VI Seeks to Make of the New Development Model a New Social Contract

The new development model King Mohammed VI seeks to establish in Morocco is a new social pact where the Moroccan citizen is at the heart of the development process and is the ultimate goal of development.   In a speech he delivered Tuesday evening from the North-eastern city of Al Hoceima on the celebration of […]