According to a Fitch Solutions commentary on Morocco’s economy, the privatization plans introduced by the Moroccan government would boost revenue growth in the coming quarters.
Local authorities at the Al Haouz province confirmed, Thursday, that a vehicle is being buried under a massive landslide triggered by the heavy rainfalls on Wednesday, MAP reports. The vehicle is carrying an unknown number of passengers who are trapped inside. In a statement issued, Thursday, the Interior Ministry revealed that firefighters and the local authorities are doing everything they could to rescue the passengers stuck inside and then clear the road that has been blocked since
Nearly three months after leaving for Abu Dhabi, the United Arabi Emirates (UAE) ambassador to Morocco Ali Salem Al Kaabi, is reportedly expected to return to Rabat. According to Arabic-language daily Akhbar Al Yaoum, which quotes well-informed sources, the diplomat’s return was discussed during the phone call between King Mohammed VI and Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The Moroccan sovereign and Zayed Al Nahyan «discussed brotherly relations
The families of the three Sahrawi detainees, arrested in June by the Polisario Front and held at the Dhaibiya prison, staged a sit-in Wednesday in Tindouf. According to pro-Polisario news platform Futuro Sahara, the detainees’ families called for the release of their loved ones. They chanted slogans and waved the photos of the three detainees, Moulay Abba Bouzeid, Fadel Breika and Mahmoud Zeidan. The families also condemned the kidnapping of the three activists and accused the Front of
Morocco’s diplomatic campaign in Latin America has finally paid off. After resuming diplomatic relations with the Kingdom in April 2017, the Cuban authorities have appointed their first ambassador to Rabat.
French multinational food-products corporation Danone is slowly but surely recovering from the consumer boycott that affected its sales in Morocco. The company based in Paris and founded in Barcelona announced, Thursday, that its sales growth gathered speed in the second quarter in all its business lines, Reuters reports. Danone said that this «acceleration from 0.8% growth in the first quarter» comes as its «sales were hit by (…) a consumer boycott in Morocco»,
The Atlas Lions’ former coach Hervé Renard said that his journey in Africa has ended, denying rumors on his contract with another African team. «In order to put an end to these rumors and interpretations that talk about my future, and which are not based on facts, I would like to let you know (…) that I will not be managing an African team», he said in a Facebook post Wednesday. For the record, Hervé Renard no longer the manager of the Moroccan national
After Morocco and Uganda, which recognizes «SADR», announced that they will be strengthening their diplomatic ties, the Polisario responded in its way, publishing a letter sent by a pro-Polisario Ugandan NGO. On Wednesday, the Front’s news agency SPS relayed the letter sent by the President of the Pan-African club Oscar Cassia which he addressed to the Front on Monday to «express his organization’s solidarity with the Saharawi people». «We wish
The Polisario Front has launched, since Friday, a campaign against Morocco, denouncing the death of a Sahrawi woman in Laayoune. Interviewed by an Algerian newspaper, Aminatou Haidar and Salem Tamek have followed in the movement’s footsteps.
Police in Nuoro, a city in Sardinia, arrested on Wednesday three Moroccans, two women aged 60 and a 21-year-old man, suspected of being involved in a criminal network that arranges white marriages between Italians and foreign nationals, especially Moroccans. Once these marriages are documented the women sent to Italy would be hired for prostitution. A 60-year-old Moroccan woman who had been arrested in the past for offences related to prostitution in Italy is suspected of heading the network,
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