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• Morocco Lawmaker Proposes Bill to End Multiple Office-Holding and Salary Accumulation
  15 February 2020, by Sylvanus

  Deputy Rachid Hammouni, sitting in the House of Representatives, has tabled a bill aimed at ending the accumulation of functions for elected officials, senior officials and civil servants of the State.
  With this bill, Deputy Rachid Hammouni, also a member of the Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS), intends to put an end to certain practices that cost the state a lot, and are also at the origin of many dysfunctions and delays noted in the public administration.
  Hammouni explained to Al (…)

• Casablanca Meat Prices Surge as Butchers Strike Over Slaughterhouse Closures
  16 February 2020, by Sylvanus

  Unhappy with the closure of several slaughterhouses deemed non-compliant, many butchers are on strike. Immediate consequence: the kg of meat is now sold at 90 DH by some butchers.
  The closure of the slaughterhouses is due to the non-observance of the ban on slaughter in the weekly markets. The local authorities made this decision after conducting an in-depth study on the social repercussions of clandestine slaughter. However, many butchers persist in bad practices.
  In accordance with (…)

• Morocco Blocks Promotions for 50 Officials in Urban Planning Scandal
  20 February 2020, by Sylvanus

  The Ministry of the Interior has blocked the advancement to higher ranks of 50 senior officials. They are accused of having covered up offenses related to urban planning.
  Secretaries general, directors of general affairs, pachas, district presidents and caids are on the list of 50 senior officials who will no longer see any promotion, reports Assabah. This sanction is justified by the fact that these officials did not report offenses related to urban planning.
  The Ministry of the (…)

• Morocco Streamlines Land Registration Process to Boost Agricultural Development
  22 February 2020, by Sylvanus

  The National Agency for Land Conservation, Cadastre and Cartography is working to simplify procedures in order to win the bet of collective registration.
  The National Agency for Land Conservation, Cadastre and Cartography has shown quality work as part of the new Generation green 2020-2030 strategy in agriculture, reports L’Économiste. According to the same source, it has contributed to "strengthening land security, immunizing property and increasing economic and development value". It is (…)

• Morocco Unveils Ethics Code for Officials in Anti-Corruption Push
  25 February 2020, by Sylvanus

  As part of the fight against corruption, Morocco intends to make a code of ethics available to government officials.
  "We are finalizing the code of ethics for all government officials. It is the head of government who will implement it through a decree that is in the final phase so that this code becomes mandatory," said Hassan Dabchy, advisor to the head of government for the fight against corruption, in an interview with LesEco.ma. This is one of Morocco’s mechanisms to fight (…)

• Morocco Launches Tax Amnesty Program, Sets September 30 Deadline
  26 February 2020, by Sylvanus

  The tax amnesty has entered its operational phase. The Directorate General of Taxes (DGI) has disseminated all the forms dedicated to its subscription.
  Request for the statement of irregularities in the possession of the administration, corrective declaration, payment slip. These are the three administrative documents that taxpayers wishing to subscribe to the tax amnesty must complete. Subscriptions can be made until September 30 next, specifies L’Économiste. After this deadline, (…)

• Casablanca’s $770 Million Debt Crisis: Property Tax Revenue Soars Amid Municipal Mismanagement
  28 February 2020, by Bladi.net

  The Casablanca town hall is forced to pay back, every year, 290 million dirhams of bank credits, in order to clear its unpaid debts which amounted to 7.7 billion dirhams in 2019.
  Tax revenues from real estate and property have continued to increase each year, due to the town hall’s outstanding debts with debtor companies. The recovery reached 7.7 billion dirhams last year, or two billion dirhams more than the city’s annual budget. This annual budget is around 5.7 billion dirhams, reports (…)

• Architects Embrace Tax Amnesty Deal as DGI Expands Professional Outreach
  29 February 2020, by Sylvanus

  The Directorate General of Taxes (DGI) has signed an agreement with the Order of Architects. In total, 1,400 professionals out of 3,500 have joined the tax amnesty.
  This is the second professional organization with which the DGI has just entered into a partnership after the doctors. According to L’Économiste, the DGI intends to sign an agreement with professional organizations to allow for massive and more effective regularizations than case-by-case negotiations. The transporters would be (…)

• Paris Police Captain Cleared of Radicalization Allegations, Set to Return to Duty
  1 March 2020, by Sylvanus

  A criminal police captain, suspended and disarmed "as a precautionary measure" last October, will resume work on March 2 in another unit. He is cleared of any suspicion of radicalization in the investigation conducted against him.
  The administrative suspension of the 39-year-old police officer followed the knife attack by Mickaël Harpon, a radicalized employee of the Paris police headquarters. Subsequently, an investigation was conducted against him and ruled out the suspicion of (…)

• Casablanca Officials Reject Amazigh Baby Name, Sparking Controversy
  3 March 2020, by Sylvanus

  The civil status services of Casablanca refused to register the first name of a little girl to whom the parents had given "Silya", an Amazigh (Berber) first name. Faced with this refusal, they sought the help of the lawyer and activist of the Amazigh Movement, Ahmed Arhmouch.
  When Brahim El Abdeloui, the child’s father, proposed the first name to the Civil Status Commission of District 2 of Salam, in the Sidi Moumen district, on February 28, he was told that this first name does not (…)