The Moroccan dirham is about to make its entry on AliExpress. Starting next month, the Chinese e-commerce platform will allow its Moroccan customers to pay for their purchases directly in their national currency.
Moroccans’ concern is growing about whether or not the celebration of Eid al-Adha will be maintained this year. The government, for its part, is awaiting the results of the national livestock census to make a decision.
The governor of the prefecture of Rabat, Mohamed El Yaacoubi, is said to have taken a radical decision regarding the installation of satellite dishes and air conditioners on the facades of buildings in the Moroccan capital.
Morocco is about to finalize a major road project connecting Smara to Mauritania. This new 53-kilometer communication route will help strengthen economic and social ties between the kingdom and sub-Saharan countries.
Things are accelerating for the project to build a tunnel connecting Punta Paloma in Spain to Punta Malabata in Morocco. The Spanish public company for studies on fixed communication through the Strait of Gibraltar (SECEGSA) has entrusted a German company with carrying out the feasibility study for this underwater rail infrastructure.
A clandestine factory producing adulterated olive oil was dismantled this week in the 9th district of Marrakech, near the Issil wadi. Two individuals suspected of being involved in this fraud were arrested.
The complaint of a woman who claims to have been a victim of harassment has led to the provisional suspension of a police officer, a member of a public security unit in Casablanca.
Fatim-Zahra Ammor, the Minister of Tourism, Handicrafts, Social and Solidarity Economy, announced the launch of new air links to serve the remote areas of the kingdom. The objective is to develop rural tourism.
Morocco has big ambitions for the rail sector. During the presentation of a strategic plan worth a total of 400 billion dirhams to Parliament, Abdessamad Kayouh, Minister of Transport and Logistics, mentioned the possibility of exporting wagons to European and African markets by 2040.
An emergency program for the reconstruction of the hotels in Marrakech damaged by the Al Haouz earthquake was at the heart of a meeting of the Regional Steering Committee chaired by Farid Chourak, Wali of the Marrakech-Safi region. The project to enhance the medina was also discussed.
Urban security will be further strengthened in Rabat. A call for tenders for the installation of an advanced video surveillance system in the city has been launched by the Rabat Region Development Company.
In Morocco, fuel distributors made huge profits between the second and third quarters of 2024 to the dismay of motorists.