Markets, protests and healthcare: Weekly Risk Watch

HESPRESS English – Morocco News Hespress ENSaturday 11 October 2025 - 22:30 Welcome to this week’s edition of our Weekly Risk Watch, offering insights into the economic, political, and security updates that could have significant implications for...

Morocco's Health Minister Highlights Sector Shortcomings, Requiring Structural Reform

Wednesday 8 October 2025 Minister of Health and Social Protection Amine Tehraoui told the Upper House that the diagnosis of the health sector reveals a set of achievements, alongside chronic and accumulated deficiencies over decades, which...

Tehraoui: Chronic Deficits Have Accumulated in Morocco’s Health Sector for Decades

Rabat – Morocco’s Minister of Health and Social Protection, Amine Tehraoui, said on Tuesday in Rabat that the government’s diagnosis of the health sector revealed both progress and long-standing challenges. These challenges, he said, required deep...

Omar Hilale Demolishes Algeria’s Claims on Western Sahara at UN Assembly

Marrakech – In a sharp diplomatic exchange at the United Nations’ 80th General Assembly session, Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, delivered a calculated yet forceful rebuttal to statements made by Algerian Foreign...

EU Reportedly Strikes Draft Trade Deal with Morocco on Western Sahara Goods

Rabat – The European Commission has reportedly secretly negotiated a new trade agreement with Morocco that covers products from Western Sahara, despite a ruling by the European Court of Justice (CJEU) that declared such deals invalid. If...

Malainin Lakhal: “The Moroccan occupation will never erase history nor Sahrawi sovereignty over Western Sahara”

Algiers (Algeria) 29 September 2025 (SPS) – The Deputy Permanent Representative of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic to the African Union and Sahrawi writer, Malainin Lakhal, stated to the magazine of the Foundation for the Promotion of Rights,...

UN Chief Alarmed by Worsening Humanitarian Crisis as Malnutrition, Diseases Rise in Tindouf

Rabat – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has warned against the severe deterioration in the nutrition of Sahrawis living in dire and inhumane conditions in the Tindouf camps, Algeria. The report cited preliminary findings from a survey, which...

Private Healthcare Providers Dispute Minister’s Claim on Public Subsidies

Marrakech – The Association of Private Clinics (ANCP) and healthcare group Akdital have strongly contested recent statements made by Health Minister Amine Tehraoui regarding subsidies to private healthcare facilities. The controversy erupted...

Global Health Reform Project, Key to Meeting Citizens' Expectations

Thursday 2 October 2025 The government understands the social demands expressed by young people and citizens in general, particularly regarding the reform of the health sector, Minister of Health and Social Protection Amine Tehraoui said...

Health minister speaks publicly for first time since protests, faces MPs’ criticism

Morocco’s health minister acknowledged today chronic shortages in the national health system during a rare live broadcast from Parliament, telling lawmakers that the government understood the demands driving recent youth-led protests and was...

Morocco to Madagascar, Youth-led Demonstrations Reflect the Crisis in the World Capitalist System

High unemployment, inflation, lack of basic services and bad governance are driving young people into the streets Geostrategic Analysis In the last remaining monarchy in North Africa, the Kingdom of Morocco, has been hit with mass demonstrations...

Morocco: Protests Met with Repression, Violence

(Beirut) – Moroccan authorities have cracked down on youth-led protests demanding sweeping reforms to public services, resulting in deaths and mass arrests, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should heed protesters’ calls and fulfil...

Well Traveled: Jeff Greenwald Revisits ‘The Size of the World’

Thirty years ago, Jeff Greenwald became unenchanted with airplanes. As an established travel writer who crisscrossed the globe on assignment for a variety of magazines, he had already logged more miles than Magellan, Marco Polo and Christopher...

Moroccan health minister vows to speed up sector reforms amid youth protests

Morocco’s health minister pledged Friday to accelerate reforms in the country’s strained health care system, acknowledging mounting public frustration and ongoing youth-led protests over poor services. In a statement to Hespress, Health and Social...

Youth Protests: Minister Admits to Deep Health Crisis, Pledges More Reforms

Rabat – Morocco’s Minister of Health and Social Protection, Amine Tahraoui, said on Wednesday night that the government understands the social demands raised by young people and citizens, especially the call to fix the health sector. His remarks...

In UN Human Rights Council: NGO accuses Morocco of systematic arbitrary detentions in Western Sahara and calls for UN’s action

Geneva (UN Human Rights Council) 18 September 2025 (SPS)– The Al-Basher Foundation for Development, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status with the United Nations, sounded the alarm over what it describes as the “ongoing...

U.N. Warns of Hunger Among Western Sahara Refugees

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: United Nations agencies struggle to mobilize resources for Sahrawi refugees in Algeria, Malawians await the results of a recent presidential election, and Egypt reportedly...

French investment boosts growth and confidence in the Moroccan Sahara in Dakhla

Sustainable development and international partnerships French investments in the southern territories Multidimensional French support Strategic partnerships As part of the transformation currently underway in Morocco's southern provinces, the city...

Morocco risk pressure points from this week: finance, health, security

Welcome to this week’s edition of our Weekly Risk Watch, offering insights into the economic, political, and security updates that could have significant implications for your business or daily life. Economy and market: Automotive Skills Shortage:...

Abiodun Aremu: Tragedy as foremost Nigerian activist killed on Ogun road, 'sad news'

A foremost activist, Comrade Abiodun Aremu, has been killed by a hit-and-run driver while crossing the road to his residence in Ota, Ogun state Aremu was rushed to a nearby hospital, where medical personnel battled to save his life, but later gave...