
Morocco's Economic Woes Deepen as 9,000 Companies Face Bankruptcy in 2023
The number of bankrupt companies in Morocco remains worrying, despite a slight slowdown. In total, 9,000 companies are expected to close down.
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The number of bankrupt companies in Morocco remains worrying, despite a slight slowdown. In total, 9,000 companies are expected to close down.

The number of people employed in the services sector reached 4,927,000 in 2019, or 44.9%. This is information provided by the High Commission for Planning (HCP) for whom agriculture comes in second with 32%.

The judicial police of Salé arrested two women. They were attempting to desecrate a tomb in the Sidi Bel Abbas cemetery.

The Casablanca town hall is forced to pay back, every year, 290 million dirhams of bank credits, in order to clear its unpaid debts which amounted to 7.7 billion dirhams in 2019.

The deputies of the PAM, the Istiqlal and the PPS, all members of the opposition, have invited the Minister of Health to explain the system put in place by Morocco, after the detection of a case of a contaminated person in [Algeria>word115].

Morocco, the main supplier of the Spanish market in fruits and vegetables, has reason to be concerned since some pressure groups have encouraged Spanish farmers to declare war on Moroccan products.

While the process of economic integration of Moroccan women is not fully established, they still have to seek permission from their family to work.

The 17 suspected cases of the coronavirus epidemic detected in Morocco so far are all negative, said the Minister of Health.

El Mehdi Namous, a Moroccan national, author of the bloody crime of Cybertek, which occurred in Avignon on January 22, 2016, in which a computer store customer was killed, has always denied the facts. Unexpectedly, he just confessed his crime during the appeal trial taking place in Nîmes.

Concern is growing more and more in the agricultural world, with the rise in input prices; which is weighing down the agricultural season. And the climax comes from the scarcity of rain.

Blocked for weeks at the port of Casablanca, the 257 buses imported by the delegatee Alsa are starting to arrive at the Maârif depot.

A Moroccan is on the list of the most wanted men by Spain that has just been revealed by the Guardia Civil. This man, described as dangerous, has not given any sign of life since 2015.