Moroccan Central Bank Urged to Add Amazigh Language to Currency

The AMA has just seized the wali of Bank Al-Maghrib to request the integration of the Amazigh language through the Tifinagh script on coins and banknotes, reports the daily Assabah. The parliament had addressed the issue a few years ago, during the vote on the new law on the status of Bank Al-Maghrib, and decided to postpone the inscription of Tifinagh on banknotes and coins, pending the adoption of the law on the officialization of the Amazigh language.

The organic law on the officialization of Amazigh being now promulgated, Bank Al-Maghrib should comply with it, believes Rachid Raha, the president of the AMA, stressing that its refusal to integrate this language on banknotes and coins would constitute a violation of the Constitution and the organic law whose article 22 is clear on the matter: "The mentions on coins and banknotes, postage stamps and seals of public administrations are inserted in the Amazigh language, alongside the Arabic language".

In his letter, Rachid Raha accuses the wali of the banking institution of "negligence", urging him to work for the integration of the Amazigh language on coins and banknotes, as well as on all the signage at the headquarters and branches of the Central Bank, including signs, billboards, nameplates, and facades of the headquarters in Hay Riyad and the former headquarters in Rabat.