US rating agency Fitch Ratings announced Thursday it is holding the BBB- rating for Morocco with a stable outlook. A statement from the agency said that «Morocco's BBB- rating is boosted by its macroeconomic stability, its comfortable reserves and a small share of foreign currency debt in the public debt…This is counterbalanced by weak development and governance indicators, high levels of public debt, and budget and current account deficits that far outweigh the peers», the
A rabbi and a Moroccan Muslim student unveiled, in April, a common book presenting their letters on various topics, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, coexistence between Muslims and Jews and the image of Moroccans within the Dutch community. According to Dutch newspaper Reformatorish Dagblad (RD), Lody van Kamp and Oumaima Al Abdellaoui came into contact through a Moroccan colleague from Van de Kamp. «You both like to write. Come on, talk to each other», he told them.
Morocco, Ghana and Tunisia are among the African countries that would lose the most if the United Kingdom does not negotiate an agreement before the end of its mandate to leave the European Union, according to a study by a UN agency quoted by Bloomberg. Thus, the total export losses of 20 African countries could reach $420 million, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Morocco could suffer losses of $97 million if Britain failed to negotiate an
Since he was admitted to the Ain El Borja prison in Casablanca in February 2018, authorities «have not allowed Moroccan journalist Taoufik Bouachrine to meet with other prisoners or converse with staff», said international NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW). In an article published, Friday, HRW denounced the situation of the journalist which it sees as «cruel and inhuman under United Nations Rules». To the NGO, Moroccan authorities keep the former editor-in-chief of
Once again, Moroccan authorities have expelled two Spanish nationals from Laayoune. Mako Florentino and Dina Bardo were arrested last night in the home of a Polisario sympathizer and were then taken to a police station. Once questioned, they spent the night in a hotel after being told to leave the country. On Friday, according to local sources, the two activists must take a flight to the Canary Islands. This expulsion comes as the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres denounced that
Moroccan police prevented, Friday, Hirak female figure Nawal Benaissa from leaving the country as she was preparing to travel to the Netherlands to attend a social justice event, Spanish press agency EFE said. «When I arrived this morning in the Nador airport police station, I was told that my passport has been invalidated by the Interior Ministry and that I am not allowed to travel abroad», Nawal Benaissa told EFE. The activist, who was with one of her children, was expected to
Interviewed by Palestinian journalist Abdel Bari Atwan, the Mauritanian president said that «the West, the United States and Europe do not want a state separating Mauritania from Morocco». «Everything you hear, outside this framework, is wrong», he said, adopting a position that was voiced in 2008 by Peter van Walsum.
On Wednesday, UN Personal Envoy Horst Köhler briefed the Security Council, behind closed doors, about the situation in Western Sahara. The meeting was an opportunity for Köhler to address the talks that were held in Geneva in December 2018 and March 2019 and which brought representatives from Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and the Polisario together. The Security Council members «supported the efforts of Köhler». «Full support of UN Security Council for
The general Delegation for prison administration and reintegration (DGAPR) has decided to transfer the detainees involved in the Al Hoceima events to prisons in the northern part of Morocco. A statement by the DGAPR says that following the confirmation on appeal of the judgments against the detainees involved in the Al Hoceima events and in order to bring them closer to their families, the Delegation has decided to transfer these inmates to prisons located in the north of the Kingdom. Earlier
Police in Indonesia announced that it dismantled four human trafficking networks that sent 1,200 domestic workers to Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Morocco. According to the Jakarta Post, which quotes the Indonesian press agency, criminal investigation director Brig. Gen. Herry Rudolf Nahak said, Tuesday, that two people were arrested for «reportedly trafficking people from West Nusa Tenggara and Jakarta to Morocco». The same source indicated that the suspects trafficked their
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