Two trainee nurses at the Ibn Baja provincial hospital in Taza have been temporarily suspended after being seen in a live broadcast on TikTok during their working hours in a department of the establishment.
The world’s largest producer of olive oil , Dcoop, has issued a stern warning to the Spanish authorities. The group’s president, Antonio Luque, has warned that if the water crisis persists in Spain due to "poor management", production will eventually be relocated across the strait, to Morocco.
Major highway construction projects aimed at easing traffic around Greater Casablanca are being completed earlier than expected. Autoroutes du Maroc (ADM) has announced the imminent commissioning of the new Tit Mellil–Berrechid highway and the Aïn Harrouda and Sidi Maârouf interchanges, several months ahead of the initial schedule that set the completion of the works for 2026.
The question of whether or not to include Moroccans residing abroad (MRE) in the total number of tourists visiting Morocco sparked a lively debate on Tuesday during the meeting of the Productive Sectors Commission in the House of Representatives, which was devoted to discussing the draft budget of the Ministries of Tourism and Crafts.
Speaking on Wednesday on the sidelines of the examination of the budget of his ministry before the Committee on the Interior and Local Authorities at the House of Representatives, Abdelouafi Laftit threatened to take legal action against any elected official who illegally appropriates collective lands or diverts funds from their sales.
The Marriott hotel group is strengthening its presence in Morocco with the arrival of five new brands and the announced opening of seven new establishments by 2027.
Following the adoption last Friday by the UN Security Council of a resolution on the Sahara validating the autonomy plan proposed by Morocco in 2007, Staffan de Mistura, the UN special envoy for Western Sahara, said on Wednesday that "it is now that the real work begins to reach a mutually acceptable solution to a 50-year-old conflict".
The government plans to impose an additional 2% tax on real estate transactions and business transfers carried out without a banking trace. The tax measure, included in the 2026 finance bill, aims to reduce the use of cash, strengthen transparency, and promote the bankarization of payments.
A real estate developer from Kenitra , involved in a case of theft of construction materials, was arrested and then brought before the courts. The businessman had been apprehended in the act.
A case of printed t-shirts , which occurred in the context of the recent social protests in Morocco, has just reached its judicial epilogue. The Court of First Instance in Rabat sentenced two young men as well as the owner of the printing press that produced the garments on Tuesday, November 4.
The UN Security Council voted on Friday, October 31, a resolution on the Sahara validating the autonomy plan proposed by Morocco in 2007. Khadija Mohsen-Finan, a specialist on the Maghreb and a member of the editorial board of the magazine Orient XXI, analyzes the impacts of this decision for Morocco, the Polisario Front and its ally, Algeria, which did not participate in the vote.
King Mohammed VI arrived in Abu Dhabi this Wednesday morning for a private visit to the United Arab Emirates. This trip comes in a particularly favorable diplomatic context for Morocco, just a few days after a historic vote at the UN Security Council on the Sahara.