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Ryad Mezzour, Moroccan Minister for Industry and Trade. DR

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Premium badgeRyad Mezzour: Morocco is establishing genuine industrial sovereignty

Decarbonisation, electric battery factories, renewable energies and more: the Moroccan Minister of Industry and Trade details his country’s strategy f...

Kenyan President William Ruto and other leaders at the close of the African Climate Summit in Nairobi, 6 September 2023. © Luis Tato/AFP

Leading the way

Premium badgeKenya, Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire: Africa’s pioneers in green transition Following the $23bn investment pledges made at the inaugural Africa Climate Summit, we take a look at the continent’s best performers in renewable ene...
People wait outside, at the Marrakech-Menara airport, following a powerful earthquake in Morocco, September 9, 2023. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

Into Africa

Premium badgeWorld Bank, IMF set to return to Africa after 50 years despite Morocco’s quake Earthquake-ravaged Morocco is set to host next month the first annual meetings of the Bretton Woods institutions on the continent since 1973.
Aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Morocco © A general view of kitchen items on top of rubble from a building, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, in Amizmiz, Morocco, September 10, 2023. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

'ball of fire'

Morocco mourns quake victims as death toll passes 2,000 The strongest-ever quake recorded in the North African country has killed at least 2,012 people and injured over 2,000, many seriously.

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Ryad Mezzour, Moroccan Minister for Industry and Trade. DR

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Premium badgeRyad Mezzour: Morocco is establishing genuine industrial sovereignty Decarbonisation, electric battery factories, renewable energies and more: the Moroccan Minister of Industry and Trade details his country’s strategy f...
Kenyan President William Ruto and other leaders at the close of the African Climate Summit in Nairobi, 6 September 2023. © Luis Tato/AFP

Leading the way

Premium badgeKenya, Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire: Africa’s pioneers in green transition Following the $23bn investment pledges made at the inaugural Africa Climate Summit, we take a look at the continent’s best performers in renewable ene...
People wait outside, at the Marrakech-Menara airport, following a powerful earthquake in Morocco, September 9, 2023. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

Into Africa

Premium badgeWorld Bank, IMF set to return to Africa after 50 years despite Morocco’s quake Earthquake-ravaged Morocco is set to host next month the first annual meetings of the Bretton Woods institutions on the continent since 1973.

Morocco top stories

Ryad Mezzour, Moroccan Minister for Industry and Trade. DR

well-rounded

Premium badgeRyad Mezzour: Morocco is establishing genuine industrial sovereignty Decarbonisation, electric battery factories, renewable energies and more: the Moroccan Minister of Industry and Trade details his country’s strategy f...
Kenyan President William Ruto and other leaders at the close of the African Climate Summit in Nairobi, 6 September 2023. © Luis Tato/AFP

Leading the way

Premium badgeKenya, Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire: Africa’s pioneers in green transition Following the $23bn investment pledges made at the inaugural Africa Climate Summit, we take a look at the continent’s best performers in renewable ene...
People wait outside, at the Marrakech-Menara airport, following a powerful earthquake in Morocco, September 9, 2023. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

Into Africa

Premium badgeWorld Bank, IMF set to return to Africa after 50 years despite Morocco’s quake Earthquake-ravaged Morocco is set to host next month the first annual meetings of the Bretton Woods institutions on the continent since 1973.

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Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema at a New Year’s ceremony in Libreville on 5 January 2023. © COM PR ID

Kingdom connections

Premium badgeHow Gabon’s Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema established ties in Morocco Gabon’s new strongman who brought down Ali Bongo Ondimba was once a military attaché in Rabat where he forged strong personal ties.
© A scene from the film Mambar Pierette, now showing at the Toronto Film Festival.

fantastic films

Top 7 African movies at the Toronto International Film Festival From 7 to 18 September, the international film community will be focused on Canada’s 48th TIFF featuring diverse features from the continent.
L-R: Othman Benjelloun, Driss Jettou, Adil Douiri, M’hamed Douiri, Hicham Naciri. (All rights reserved)

fast lane

Premium badgeWho’s who in Moroccan businessman Adil Douiri’s power network? Former prime minister Driss Jettou, tycoon Othman Benjelloun and lawyer Hicham Naciri are among the aces in Douiri’s pack as the Moroccan seals a new ...
Algeria (L) and Morocco (R) are fighting over caftans, zelliges and the BRICS. (Photos by AFP)

he said, she said

Premium badgeAlgeria, Morocco and the blooper reel of discord There is no shortage of disputes between North African neighbours Algiers and Rabat, to the extent that the most trivial of issues can inflame tempers...
Migrants repatriated from Dakhla after their boat capsized. Yoff military airport, Dakar, 26 July 2023. SEYLLOU/AFP

long way home

Repatriating migrants: Morocco says it is setting an example On 23 August, another 325 migrants expelled from Morocco returned home to Senegal. Rabat says the migrants were moved in the best possible conditions.
jad20230824-eco-maroc-soudan-managem-1256×628-1692893338 © The plant at the Wadi Gabgaba mine in Sudan. Managem

‘significant growth’

Premium badgeImpacted by Sudan war, Managem borrows more on declining sales Weighed down by halted projects in war-hit Sudan and depressed prices for cobalt, zinc and copper, the Moroccan mining giant saw its midterm results p...