Jun 25, 2020 | Menas Associates, Morocco
With political attentions becoming increasingly focused on the forthcoming legislative and local elections of 2021, there have been renewed calls for voting to be made compulsory. Such calls are nothing new because demands for mandatory voting have repeatedly...
May 27, 2020 | Menas Associates, Morocco
The Moroccan authorities are also struggling to draw up a national strategy to deal with the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and its’ very damaging social and economic ramifications. On 19 May the Minister of Economy, Finance and Administrative Reform, Mohamed...
Apr 24, 2020 | Menas Associates, Morocco
Although the Moroccan government has introduced a number of important measures to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic the country’s public health system is still in a dire shape. It suffers from a series of structural problems including: a lack of qualified personnel; acute...
Mar 31, 2020 | Menas Associates, Morocco
Besides concerns about militant Islamist networks making use of the situation, Morocco is also grappling with the effects that the COVID-19 outbreak will have on the economy. The tourism sector, which represented almost 11% of GDP in 2019, will be hugely affected....
Feb 27, 2020 | Menas Associates, Morocco
The election of Abdellatif Ouahbi as General Secretary of the Parti authenticité et modernité (PAM) will shake up Morocco’s largest opposition party. If he continues to push for a new direction for the party — and especially if he opts to form an alliance with the...
Feb 5, 2020 | Menas Associates, Morocco
Tensions between Morocco and Spain have increased this month after the Moroccan parliament ratified two laws that delineated its maritime borders. The laws — Bill 37.17 and Bill 38.17 — which had been stalled in the parliament since 2017 were unanimously passed on 22...
