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Morocco

Mohamed VI cast as CEO of Morocco, Inc.

Just the title, the Roi Predateur (Predator King), a book by Catherine Graciet and Eric Laurent on the economic clout [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.02.2012

Mrs. Akhannouch hires husband's staff

The Akhannouch family appears engaged in a big public-private game of musical chairs. Up to now chief-of-staff to farm minister [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.02.2012

Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz

Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, the Mauritanian president, has been officially [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 16.02.2012

EIB

EIB (European Investment Bank) has pulled out its check-book to [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.02.2012

Zenagui takes the floor

Former tourism minister Yassir Zenagui will make his first public appearance as a royal adviser during a Morocco Investors' Summit in Casablanca between Feb. 23-25.

Subscribers only Business 16.02.2012

Spotlight
Will palace wield stick carefully at Taza?

Mohammed VI is facing a new kind of dilemma: how to deal with an uprising in the city of Taza that came to a head on Feb. 3-4 without appearing to curb the "political headway" the palace claims to have [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.02.2012

Why Oudghiri won king's pardon

How can the pardon that Mohammed VI granted to Khaled Oudghiri on the occasion of the Mouled religious festival on [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.02.2012

Bakkoury quits sun for shadow

Morocco’s "new political scene" has been good to Mustapha Bakkoury. Boss of the MASEN solar agency and ex chief of [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.02.2012

Lahlimi sets tone for Hollande in Rabat

If the French Socialist Party's candidate for the forthcoming election isn't travelling to Morocco, the country may well come to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.02.2012

Earthstone

Earthstone has arrived in a big way on Morocco’s mining [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.02.2012

Medef

Medef, the French employers federation, and Morocco's CGEM are organizing [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.02.2012

Benkhadra to stay put

Former energy and mines minister Amina Benkhadra, whose portfolio was [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.02.2012

Najib Boulif seeks to rope in AMDI

The name of Fathallah Sijilmassi’s successor as head of Agence [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.02.2012

Pardons were bitter sweet for Ramid

Justice minister Mustapha Ramid, who belongs to the Islamic PJD [...]

Subscribers only 09.02.2012

Spotlight
CEN-SAD, Rabat’s secret weapon in Sahel

Dormant since the death of its founder and principal supporter Muammar Gaddafi, the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) has attracted the keen interest of Morocco recently. Rabat wants to revive the organisation, established in Tripoli in 1998, and take it [.

Subscribers only Politics 02.02.2012

Oil companies focus on Tarfaya

The region of Tarfaya in the north of Western Sahara has already served up heavy oil, the offshore Cap Juby [...]

Subscribers only Business 02.02.2012

Ali Bongo

Ali Bongo is determined to play Sherpa to Moroccan king [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 02.02.2012

EIB

EIB, the European Investment Bank, seems particularly well-disposed towards Morocco’s [...]

Subscribers only Business 02.02.2012

Norwegian NGO targets K&L Gates

After launching a campaign against Innophos which buys phosphates from Western Sahara, the Norwegian NGO Western Sahara Resources Watch (WSRW) [...]

Subscribers only Business 26.01.2012

Maurizio Massari

Maurizio Massari, Italy's new special envoy to countries in the [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 26.01.2012

Dana Petroleum

Dana Petroleum is counting on doubling its output to 100,000 [...]

Subscribers only Business 26.01.2012

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Regularly taking "refuge" in his beautiful home in Marrakech since [...]

Subscribers only 26.01.2012

Stefan Fule

In travelling to Morocco last week, the European commissioner for [...]

Subscribers only 26.01.2012

Sijilmass-Akherbach Duel for UPM job

King Mohammed VI’s circle in Rabat is hard at work trying to choose a successor to the secretary-general of the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.01.2012

Abbas El Fassi

Former Moroccan prime minister Abbas El Fassi won’t stand for [...]

Subscribers only 19.01.2012

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