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• Royal Air Maroc Expands Routes, Plans Fleet Renewal Amid Growth Strategy
  12 May 2024, by Prince

  Invited on the "Grand invité de l’économie" program of RFI and Jeune Afrique, Abdelhamid Addou, CEO of Royal Air Maroc, reviewed the burning issues of the moment affecting the life and survival of the Moroccan airline.
  Abdelhamid Addou announced good prospects for Royal Air Maroc (RAM). The Moroccan airline will launch new routes in Europe and Africa and renew its fleet of aircraft. "We will reopen Abuja in Nigeria next June, a route that will be added to the one on Lagos. This is a first (…)

• Morocco’s Customer Service Industry Faces 40% Revenue Drop Amid COVID-19 Crisis
  19 May 2020, by Sylvanus

  Covid-19 is having a negative impact on the customer relations sector in Morocco, with a 30 to 40% drop in turnover in May and June. Otmane Serraj, president of the Moroccan Association of Customer Relations, which brings together 17 companies, including Teleperformance, Sitel, Majorel and Outsourcia, decodes the situation.
  "The first quarter of 2020 was relatively spared, as we were able to react quickly. But the second quarter will be more severely affected, with a 15 to 30% drop in (…)

• Morocco’s Power Players: 6 Nationals Among Africa’s 100 Most Influential in 2020
  29 July 2020, by Bladi.net

  The pan-African weekly Jeune Afrique has named the 100 most influential personalities on the continent for the year 2020. Among these men and women from the fields of health, business, politics, culture, sports, and who demonstrate a dynamic Africa through their works, there are six Moroccans.
  Among the six Moroccan personalities ranked in this Top 100 are four men and two women. Their names are Moulay Hafid Elalamy, Minister of Industry, Trade and Green and Digital Economy, who is in the (…)

• Tensions Escalate Between Morocco and Algeria Over Western Sahara Dispute
  27 February 2021, by Sylvanus

  Jeune Afrique devoted an article to the long-standing tensions between Morocco and Algeria over the Sahara issue. The pan-African weekly wonders if we are heading towards an open conflict between the two countries.
  "Relations between the two ’brotherly countries’ have never been a long quiet river. But in recent months, the coldness has given way to outright hostility. The main cause: the eternal Sahara Western issue," summarizes Jeune Afrique. The pan-African weekly noted that Morocco (…)

• Moroccan Singer Saâd Lamjarred Sues Magazine Over Rape Allegations Coverage
  6 September 2021, by Ginette

  Moroccan singer Saâd Lamjarred has decided to file a complaint against the monthly magazine Jeune Afrique, for very serious accusations that would have been made against him.
  The cover of the September edition for the Maghreb of the pan-African magazine Jeune Afrique is devoted to Saâd Lamjarred and his "saga". But the content inside is full of very serious accusations against the Moroccan star, especially regarding his legal troubles in France for alleged rape cases, reports Maghreb (…)

• Morocco Expects COVID-19 Peak in Late January, Health Minister Reports
  15 January 2022, by Ginette

  The fight against the spread of Covid-19 has allowed Morocco to increase its medical infrastructure capacities, said Moroccan Health Minister Khalid Ait Taleb.
  Morocco has thus gone from "685 to 5,258 intensive care beds and from 22,000 to 28,000 hospital beds," he said in an interview with Jeune Afrique. Regarding the new Omicron variant, Khalid Ait Taleb stressed that the hospital capacity occupied at 5.80% of intensive care beds could increase with the multiplication of cases of (…)

• Morocco’s Tourism Rebounds as CDC Lowers Travel Risk Level
  6 September 2022, by Ginette

  The tourism sector in Morocco is gradually regaining the stability it knew before the coronavirus period. The return of foreign and Moroccan tourists is contributing greatly to this resurgence.
  The fact that the US federal public health agency (CDC) has decided to put Morocco on the list of countries at moderate risk, could only give impetus to the tourism sector which was at a standstill, according to an article posted online by Jeune Afrique and titled "Morocco: the tourism industry is (…)

• Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s 25-Year Reign: Resilience and Adaptation in the Face of Regional Challenges
  4 August 2023, by Prince

  In an analysis, François Soudan, editor-in-chief of the magazine Jeune Afrique, dissected the reign of Mohammed VI, highlighting the determination, clear vision and common sense of the Moroccan monarch who has been able to adapt to the demands of the moment.
  "The time of Morocco has never been that of the rest of the world, even more so under Mohammed VI [...] to reign is to last by adapting to circumstances, the important thing being not to falter when it comes to acting," analyzes (…)

• Morocco Gains Diplomatic Edge in Sahel Crisis as France and Algeria Falter
  21 February 2024, by Prince

  Unlike France and Algeria, Morocco has intelligently managed the crisis in the Sahel, according to Jeune Afrique.
  While President Emmanuel Macron has adopted a "punitive" strategy towards these three countries, jeopardizing the future of his bilateral relations with them, and Algeria has reacted in a "clumsy" manner to these situations in Bamako, Ouagadougou, and Niamey, realizing a "diplomatic fiasco", Morocco has intelligently managed this crisis in the Sahel, observes the editorialist (…)

• Drought Sparks Water Tensions Between Morocco and Algeria
  15 June 2024, by Prince

  A new crisis is about to open between Morocco and Algeria. At the origin of these tensions, the lack of water caused by the severe drought that has been hitting the region for nearly five years.
  "Is a water war imminent between Morocco and Algeria?", wonders Jeune Afrique, evoking the recent statements of the Algerian Minister of Irrigation, Taha Derbal, who holds Morocco responsible for the uprisings recorded in early June in the city of Tiaret, in northwestern Algeria, due to the (…)