Jalil Laaboudi
Cisco will strengthen its presence in Morocco through a new project aimed at developing the country’s digital infrastructure. The American group is partnering with Cybastion to improve, in particular, cybersecurity and the cloud services used by government administrations and businesses.
Agadir’s real estate market has almost entirely erased the drop in house prices recorded at the beginning of the year. After falling by 12%, prices rebounded by 11.1% in the second quarter, while sales surged by 48.4%.
Gas volumes transported from Spain to Morocco fell sharply in the second half of August. The nearly one-third decline came after the summer peak in electricity consumption, while the Kingdom remains dependent on Spanish infrastructure to import its LNG.
A woman married in Morocco presented herself as a widow in a will naming her nephew as her sole heir. After her death, her Moroccan husband challenged the document, claiming that her cancer and brain metastases had impaired her judgment.
A Moroccan woman living in Morocco had been receiving a Dutch benefit since October 2015 following the death of her former husband. Four years later, an anonymous tip revealed that they had already been divorced. The courts have just upheld the retroactive withdrawal of the benefit.
In Tangier and Ksar El-Kébir, households excluded from bank credit are turning to a parallel market. For 10,000 dirhams obtained immediately, some have to repay as much as 12,000 dirhams within a few months. The authorities are beginning to gather information.
Spain is among Europe’s leading producers and exporters of peppers. Yet it depends almost exclusively on Morocco when it buys this vegetable from abroad: 95% of its imports during the first half of 2026 were of Moroccan origin.
A 29-year-old Moroccan woman wanted to join her sister, mother and grandmother in France on a long-stay visa. Her brother promised to accommodate her, and her grandmother had €14,000 in savings. The courts nevertheless upheld the refusal.
Bank Al-Maghrib handled 3,591 complaints from customers of credit institutions in 2025, compared with 2,298 a year earlier. This 56% increase was accompanied by a sharp decline in decisions favorable to complainants, which fell from 74% to 51%.
A Moroccan woman wanted to join her Belgian husband. Despite free accommodation and very low expenses, her visa was refused: the authorities believed that her husband might one day receive GRAPA. The Council for Alien Law Litigation has now overturned this reasoning.
A health alert was issued in Germany after excessive pesticide levels were detected in Moroccan green beans. The batch, which arrived via Spain, was no longer on store shelves when the analysis results became known.
A major study estimates that new HIV infections in Morocco fell from 3,163 in 2013 to 874 in 2025. However, this 72% decline masks a strong concentration of the epidemic in certain populations and significant differences between regions.