The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced on November the 29th that the US is selling Morocco 162 Abrams tanks for USD 1.259 billion. The sale, which has not been concluded yet, is conducted through the Excess Defense Article program.
In 1790, the South Carolina legislature passed the Moor Sundry Act after four couples coming from Morocco signed a petition, demanding the authorities to grant them the status of white free people.
More than 20 NGOs and pro-Polisario bodies operating in the Sahara and the Tindouf camps urged the European Parliament, Tuesday, to vote against the fisheries agreement. On the same day in Brussels, the Committee of Permanent Representatives voted in favor of the treaty concluded between Morocco and European Commission.
Ranked 103rd by the Prosperity Index, Morocco has fallen in the ranking conducted by the Legatum Institute.