Year: 2012

RABAT Feb 13 (Reuters) – There is no pressure for Morocco to tap the international bond market in 2012 but it may decide to, the country’s finance minister said after its current account deficit surged last year to...

RABAT Feb 13 (Reuters) – Morocco posted a current account deficit equivalent to 6.5 percent of gross domestic product in 2011, its biggest shortfall since the 1980s, Finance Minister Nizar Baraka said on Monday, due to...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Burkina Faso has fined its three mobile telephony operators a total of 3 billion CFA francs ($6 million) for what it said was a failure to fulfill service commitments. The fines apply to Maroc...

Rabat – The transfers by Moroccan living abroad rose 7.6% to 58.5 billion dirhams in 2011, said Morocco’s foreign exchange regulator, Office des Changes. Receipts from these transfers grew over 4.1 billion dirhams...