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Cocoa: Morocco Imports More Than $220 Million in Cocoa Products

Morocco’s cocoa market now represents more than $220 million in annual imports, highlighting the growing importance of the chocolate and food-processing industries, while also...

Crypto: $9.4 Trillion in Activity at the Heart of a Market in Transformation

The global cryptocurrency economy generated approximately $9.4 trillion in activity between July 2025 and June 2026, despite a nearly 50% contraction in overall market...

Ethena Extends USDe Strategy to Tokenized Equities on Binance

Ethena is extending the yield-generation model underpinning its USDe synthetic dollar to tokenized equity markets. With Binance as its first platform, the protocol combines...

Goldman Sachs Connects $100 Billion Treasury Fund to Blockchain Infrastructure

Goldman Sachs is opening access to its Financial Square Treasury Instruments Fund, which manages around $100 billion, to institutional digital-asset companies through Lynq, an...

Who is Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri?

Born on January 3, 1976, in Marrakech, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri is a lawyer specializing in real estate and urban law. Her professional and...

Burkina Faso: First Gold Refinery Opens to Capture More Local Value

Burkina Faso has taken a new step toward the local processing of its gold. On Monday, September 28, 2026, the country inaugurated its first...

CAMEROUN – Cotco: Savannah seeks more than CFAF 228 billion

Savannah Midstream Investment Limited is seeking approximately CFAF 228.6 billion through arbitration proceedings involving, among others, Cameroon’s SNH and Chad. The dispute concerns interests...

Africa Bright Securities prepares expansion into Gabon

Cameroon-based brokerage firm Africa Bright Securities is preparing a capital increase and the opening of a branch in Gabon. Both operations, approved in May...

Purchasing Power: Fuel Prices Put Pressure on Household Budgets

Pressure on Moroccan household budgets is not reflected in a uniform increase across all prices. Fuel nevertheless remains one of the main sources of...

Disway Accelerates Its Expansion in West Africa

Moroccan IT distributor Disway is pursuing its regional development strategy and plans to gradually strengthen its presence in West Africa. The move comes as...

CDG to Invest MAD 16 Billion Between 2026 and 2028

The Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion (CDG) Group plans to invest nearly MAD 16 billion over the 2026-2028 period. The funding is expected...

September in Morocco: Summer and Autumn Fruits Meet

September is an important transitional month for Morocco’s fruit market, as the end of the summer season overlaps with the beginning of the autumn...

Soft Wheat: First Impacts of the Return of Imports to Morocco.

Since the resumption of soft wheat imports on September 16, 2026, the Moroccan market has entered a new phase of adjustment. After several months...

Why Are Moroccan Banks Betting on Investment and Entrepreneurship?

Moroccan banks are gradually becoming key partners in financing investment and businesses, driven by rising demand for equipment and project financing across industry, infrastructure,...