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    • Monday, 23 October, 2023
      LexRenewable energy
      Interconnectors: why long-distance electricity makes sense Premium content

      A £20bn Xlinks project aims to bring green electricity from Morocco to Devon

      A solar and wind turbine plant in the Netherlands
    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
      Special Report
      Investing in Morocco

      As Marrakech hosts the annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF this week, we report on the country’s post-Covid economic bounceback, emergence as the continent’s leading carmaker, and its ambition to be a leading gateway for investment into Africa

      The city of Tangier on a sunny afternoon
    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Morocco
      Rabat plots route past earthquake shock and tougher economic straits

      A strong recovery from Covid has been tempered by inflation and natural disasters

      A man walks among collapsed buildings after an earthquake
    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Morocco
      Persistent drought strains Morocco’s economic prospects

      The farm sector generates just 12 per cent of GDP but has a profound impact on the country’s fortunes

      A farmer holds a shrivelled olive between finger and thumb
    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Morocco
      Textiles weave their way into Moroccan export bounceback

      The country is a leading supplier of clothing to Europe but better wages in other industries limit the sector’s appeal to younger workers

      A textile factory with production machinists working
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      Frieze Week in London 2023
      Artist Amine El Gotaibi: ‘Africa has light inside. We have to trust in it’

      His installation for London’s 1-54 art fair reflects his belief in the continent’s rich human resources

      A bearded man wearing a black shirt and shorts kneels next to a sculpture with piles of fabric threads behind him
    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Morocco
      Morocco’s post-Covid tourist boom on track despite earthquake shock

      Rabat is targeting 17.5mn visitors by 2026, with upgraded facilities and more ‘experience’ packages

      Tourists walk under a building marked with a red ‘X,’ symbolizing it is unsafe after an earthquake
    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Morocco
      Morocco’s carmaking sector revs up for EV era

      The country is solidifying its position as Africa’s largest auto-manufacturing hub

      A worker stands beneath a car body at Renault-Nissan’s assembly plant in Tangier
    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Morocco
      Casablanca stakes claim to be ‘gateway’ to investing in Africa

      Moroccan companies are investing heavily in the continent, but trade growth is more patchy

      The Banque Centrale Populaire building in Casablanca
    • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
      FIFA World Cup
      Spain, Portugal and Morocco to host 2030 World Cup

      Euro 2028 men’s tournament set to be awarded to UK and Ireland after Turkey withdraws from bidding

      Lionel Messi lifts the trophy after Argentina won the 2022 World Cup
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Batteries
      Chinese battery groups invest in Morocco to serve western markets

      North African country emerges as bridge to US and Europe that reduces risk for producers

      Untreated phosphate at the Marca factory of state-owned miner OCP
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Person in the News
      Mohammed VI: Morocco’s monarch faces an earthquake-hit country

      The reserved king is trying to show he is in control following the most devastating tremor in 60 years

      A man in glasses and a dark-blue turban stands amid a background of a graphic shockwave and cracked concrete and a green pentagram from Morocco’s flag
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Richard Shirreff
      Western security depends on rebuilding Morocco

      Ukraine has shown that we cannot afford to be complacent about the threats spreading from the region

      A woman walks through the rubble next to her donkey as she tries to rescue her goat after this week’s deadly earthquake in Morocco
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Morocco vows to rebuild as hopes fade for more earthquake survivors

      Government wants IMF and World Bank meetings set for Marrakech next month to proceed

      Damaged buildings in Marrakech’s Medina
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      Morocco gives no response to French offer to join quake rescue efforts

      Apparent diplomatic snub comes after Rabat welcomes help from other countries

      People look at ruined buildings after the earthquae
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      News in-depth
      ‘Completely destroyed’: Morocco’s mountain villages count human cost of earthquake

      The remote High Atlas region has borne the brunt of the most powerful quake to strike the country in 120 years

      A man walks past damaged buildings in Ouirgane, Morocco
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      Rescuers dig for quake survivors in Morocco

      At least 2,000 people have been killed but many more could still be trapped in collapsed buildings in mountain villages

      An elderly woman is given help in the wake of the earthquake in the mountain village of Tafeghaghte, south-west of Marrakesh
    • Saturday, 9 September, 2023
      Moroccan earthquake claims more than 2,000 lives

      Authorities appeal for blood donations as landslides impede rescue efforts in mountain villages

    • Saturday, 19 August, 2023
      Morocco’s elite relieved as absentee monarch returns to base

      King’s trips abroad and friendship with martial arts fighter had sparked concern and stymied decision making

      Morocco’s King Mohammed VI attends a ceremony
    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      The Damned Don’t Cry — sad and brilliant story of striving souls in Morocco

      Vintage Hollywood melodrama is evoked in Fyzal Boulifa’s drama about a once-glamorous mother and her teenage son

      A young man and an older woman walk along a road lined with market stalls carrying large bags
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      European Parliament
      ‘Qatargate’ judge steps aside after conflict of interest allegations

      Michel Claise’s son has founded a business with the son of an MEP linked to the affair

      Belgium lawyer of Eva Kaili Andre Risopoulos and the Greek lawyer Michalis Dimitrakopoulos talk to the media
    • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
      Music
      Healing and transcendence with the Master Musicians of Joujouka

      The Moroccan band, soon to perform at Glastonbury, offer an ecstatic experience

      A man with a yellow silk headband in a white shirt plays a recorder-like instrument among a band
    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      HTSIHTSI spring travel special
      Travels with my mom

      What happened when the HTSI travel editor Maria Shollenbarger took her 80-year-old mother to Morocco?

      Maria Shollenbarger and her mother, Sherry, in the courtyard of Riad Mena, Marrakech
    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      FT Magazine
      Seif Kousmate’s unsettling pictures of disappearing oases

      To portray the shortage of water in his native Morocco, the photographer subjects his prints to heat, scarring and damage

    • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
      Interview
      Morocco must adapt to growing climate threat, warns finance minister

      Nadia Fettah Alaoui says years of below-average rainfall underscore importance of investment in water technologies

      Morocco’s finance minister Nadia Fettah Alaoui
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