Nadia El A.
As Gianni Infantino faces one of the most serious crises of his presidency at FIFA , Morocco has now clearly taken a position. Fouzi Lekjaa has joined five other Arab football officials in offering his “full support” to the head of world football.
Ordering a coffee in Morocco long meant almost automatically receiving a glass of water at no extra charge. In some establishments, this practice is now declining in favor of a bottle of mineral water charged to the customer.
The TitanBeach titanium project has reached a decisive stage in southern Morocco. After months of studies and exploration, Moroccan authorities have just granted a mining licence for the project’s first zone.
A few hours after claiming that compromising images had been fabricated using artificial intelligence, a Moroccan influencer was arrested at Mohammed V Airport as she was preparing to leave the country.
Morocco has just hired an American agency to strengthen its communications in the United States. The contract provides for $35,000 a month and details how Rabat intends to better convey its messages in Washington.
Casablanca will take out a loan of nearly 444 million dirhams to acquire 350 buses currently held by Alsa Al Baida. A substantial portion of this sum will first be used to settle the operator’s related bank debt.
A Moroccan man was refused renewal of his residence permit and issued an OQTF. The prefecture notably considered that his Spanish wife had neither an employment contract nor her own resources. Yet she had been working for several months, with an income of around 2,000 euros.
Two and a half years after opening a tiny 18-seat café in Philadelphia, Moroccan Soufiane Boutliliss is moving to a completely different scale. His new restaurant can accommodate around 120 customers, with cuisine that remains deeply connected to Morocco.
In Morocco, a setback becomes a doubt about 2030. A success becomes a threat to Spain. For several months, the same pattern has kept resurfacing in part of the Spanish debate, almost always with the same destination: the World Cup final.
Morocco continues to be driven by a powerful investment cycle. But behind the major construction projects, the World Bank is identifying the first signs of a slowdown: in the first quarter of 2026, cement sales fell by 11 % year on year.
Finding an apartment in Rabat is becoming a challenge for many residents. Affordable housing is becoming scarcer at a time when rents remain high and food, transportation, and everyday expenses are already taking up an increasing share of household budgets.
Tahar Ben Jelloun says he cannot understand how tens of thousands of young people were able to head toward Ceuta without being stopped earlier by Moroccan law enforcement. For the writer, the strength of the security apparatus is precisely what makes this episode difficult to explain.