First Independent Mena Newspaper
Morocco’s consumer price index rose 1.7 percent in April 2026 on a twelve-month rolling basis, ticking up from the 1.1 percent recorded in March, according to data published Friday by the High Commission for Planning (HCP). The headline figure remains comfortably below the two percent threshold set as the reference level by monetary authorities, and […]
On the same day the competition council issued a scathing report criticizing the government’s plan to set caps on fuel prices, governance minister responded by discarding the report as political. The council said capping fuel prices would not be beneficial to the Moroccan economy and citizen’s purchasing power. The council also called for more structural […]