In 2025, the European Union bought €25.5 billion worth of goods from Morocco and €26.5 billion from Algeria. With a difference of only one billion euros, the amounts are almost identical. But the composition of exports is radically different.
Morocco is expected to narrow part of its military gap with Algeria in the coming years. A new American analysis estimates that Moroccan investments in advanced technologies and local production are gradually beginning to alter the balance between the two neighbors.
Morocco and Algeria are both experiencing severe water stress, but the figures show two very different situations. Algeria has three times less renewable freshwater per capita, while in Morocco, nearly nine out of every ten liters withdrawn are used for agriculture.
Shipments of American almonds to Morocco soared by 49% in a single campaign. The Kingdom received nearly 40,000 tonnes, becoming by far the leading North African market for Californian producers.
The number of babies born in France to mothers born in Morocco has fallen sharply over the past ten years. This decline accompanies the overall drop in French births, as the country has just entered a period in which deaths now outnumber births.
Personal remittances received from abroad account for 7.5% of Morocco’s GDP, compared with just 0.7% in Algeria. Relative to the size of the two economies, their weight is therefore more than ten times greater in Morocco.
To finance a trip abroad, a Moroccan resident can convert up to 100,000 dirhams each year under the basic allowance, or around 9,300 euros. In Algeria, the limit is set at 750 euros for an adult: a difference of more than twelvefold.
Morocco passes the American budget transparency test, unlike Algeria. In its new global report, Washington considers that Rabat meets its minimum requirements, while Algiers remains among the governments that do not comply with them.
Morocco and Algeria meet this Saturday in Rabat to play for the bronze medal at the Women’s AFCON. In the Algerian press, this second confrontation in just over two weeks is seen as an opportunity to bring a historic campaign to an end and, for some, to take revenge on the Atlas Lionesses.
One month after the arrest in Tizi Ouzou of six people presented as members of the MAK, including four Moroccans, the Algerian army is taking a new step: it is broadcasting “confessions” attributed to the group and claims that it wanted to disrupt the elections on the instructions of the Kabyle movement.
The president of Algeria’s Council of the Nation, Azouz Nasri, launched a fierce attack on Morocco, accusing the “Moroccan Makhzen” of pursuing a project of “settler colonialism” in the region and harboring “expansionist ambitions.”
Air Algérie still carries more passengers than Royal Air Maroc. But as soon as one looks at the distances travelled, the strength of the African network , current capacity or punctuality, the comparison takes on an entirely different complexion.