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Morocco recorded substantial growth in foreign direct investment during the first ten months of 2025, with net flows strengthening 39.4 percent to reach 27.06 billion dirhams compared to 19.41 billion dirhams during the same period last year, according to the Foreign Exchange Office. This evolution reflects renewed confidence among foreign investors and enhanced attractiveness of […]
Morocco recorded a dramatic 63% increase in foreign direct investment during the first quarter of 2025, signaling robust investor confidence in the kingdom’s industrial transformation and strategic positioning as a nearshoring hub for European markets. According to Investment Minister Karim Zidan, Morocco attracted over 9.15 billion dirhams ($992 million) in net FDI flows by March […]
Morocco’s foreign direct investment inflows jumped 43.4% to 39.27 billion dirhams ($3.9 billion) through August 2025, according to Foreign Exchange Office monthly indicators. This performance significantly strengthens the recovery initiated in 2024, demonstrating renewed international investor confidence in Moroccan economic prospects. Investment flows have fluctuated considerably since 2021, when they totaled 20.12 billion dirhams. FDI […]
Tanzania’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) figures went up almost twofold year-on-year to $1.05 billion between July and September against $524.4 million in the same period last year, a positive development that is widely attributed to growing investor confidence in the East African country. Released by the state-run Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) in its quarterly bulletin […]
Togo’s Minister for Investment, Rose Kayi Mivedor, unveiled Tuesday Yearbook Togo 2022-2023, an economic report presenting the country’s economic potential, as a tool to lure Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). “The Yearbook Togo 2022-2023 was published with the aim of making economic data accessible and providing an overview of achievements – completed and in progress – […]
Morocco’s direct investments abroad recorded in 2021 the highest level over the past five years, reaching 17.9 billion dirhams. According to the latest data of the exchange office, this figure represents an increase of 10.17 billion dirhams compared to 2020, when these investments amounted to 7.7 billion dirhams. In 2019, Morocco’s investments abroad amounted to […]
Morocco has encouraged its companies to invest in Sub-Saharan Africa to an extent that its geared 90% of its foreign direct investments to the region in the period spanning from 2010 to 2018, the Financial Times reported. Ethiopia, Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon were top destinations of Moroccan investments, the publication said. Morocco’s exports to West […]
Foreign Direct Investment flows in Morocco increased by 23 per cent in 2017 to reach $2.7 billion, while FDI to the rest of North Africa dropped by 4 per cent, according to UNCTAD’s World Investment Report 2018 (WIR). The FDI injected in the North African Kingdom went up thanks to considerable investment into new car […]
Remittances of Moroccans living abroad, one of the main source of foreign exchange reserves in Morocco, grew by 4% in the first eleven months of 2017 to stand at 60.2 billion dirhams ($6.5 bln), while FDI flow in the country grew by 13.2% to 21.8 billion dirhams over the same period compared to 19.3 billion […]
Morocco topped the countries of the Maghreb region in terms of attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2016, according to a report established by the Arab Investment and Export Credit Guarantee Corporation. The North African kingdom attracted $2.3 billion worth of FDI in 2016, followed by Algeria with 1.5 billion, Tunisia with 958 million, and […]