Two declarations submitted to the same United Nations database give radically different figures for 2025: $380.75 million in Israeli imports on the Moroccan side, compared with $115.75 million in exports to Morocco on the Israeli side. A gap of $265 million remains to be explained.
In Morocco, 21.7% of businesses identify the practices of their informal-sector competitors as their main obstacle, compared with 15.7% for corruption, according to the World Bank.
Morocco is home to 343 invasive alien species. Their potential economic impact could reach $2.47 billion per year, according to a study that, for the first time, quantifies their cost across the Kingdom.
In Morocco, certain requests for financial information can now receive a response within 60 minutes. A report by Transparency International and UNICRI details the mechanisms established to speed up investigations into suspicious money flows.
The penalty is an unusual one for an influencer. The Marrakech court sentenced Soukaina Glamour to ten months in prison and, above all, banned her from using social media for three years.
Meknès has a long history with aviation. Yet, unlike many other major Moroccan cities, it still has no civilian airport. This is surprising given that a project already existed in the early 1950s.
The hourly labor cost in the manufacturing industry is approximately 2.8 dollars in Morocco, compared with only 0.7 dollars in Egypt. Despite this one-to-four gap, the World Bank considers that Moroccan textiles retain several advantages over their competitors.
Marine aquaculture could attract nearly $2 billion in private investment to Morocco and generate around 75,000 jobs. The World Bank estimates that the potential already exists, but remains constrained by permits and several regulatory constraints .
Wealthy property owners and influential officials are now being caught up in the campaign to reclaim public land in Bouznika. Several have been ordered to vacate their properties before September 15, under threat of demolition.
Hundreds of families, including MREs, have been waiting for years for their apartment in the Al Ghali project in Marrakech. After sometimes substantial payments and a stalled construction site, work has finally resumed, nine years after the launch of the program’s last phase.
Abrams tanks are not the only Moroccan military equipment concerned by maintenance operations in the United States. A Pentagon contract shows that Morocco is also participating in an American program to refurbish the modules of the F100 engines powering its F-16s.
Nearly a month after his disappearance in Tangier, Ouadoud Rabbaj remains missing. His family is now considering a new possibility: the 22-year-old MRE may have been mistaken for a homeless person and moved out of the city.