Richard Smotkin, who was recruited by Moroccan ambassador in Washington Lalla Joumala Alaoui for a glitzy PR contract (MC 1290), is also an ardent defender of American interests, particularly in the gas sector, in the kingdom.
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A series of failures in the property sector has forced BMCE to put on its hard hat! According to our [...]
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Efforts to put out to concession the Rabat bus network are getting bogged down. According to our sources, Rabat-Sale-Temara local [...]
Efforts to privatise farming on the state's agricultural land in a desperate attempt to reduce the country's import bill are [...]
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Tassili Travail Aerien (TTA), which has been involved in a series of incidents in recent months, including the deaths of [...]
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The government's renewable energy development plan has set sparks flying between prime minister Youssef Chahed and his energy minister Khaled [...]
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US consulting company Tetra Tech, which has been a long-standing sub-contractor of American development aid agency USAID (MC 1034) in [...]
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Set up in early 2018, Dutch charter flight company FlyOrange [...]
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Turkish electrical engineering group Europower Enerji has set up a [...]
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BIAT Consulting, the in-house consulting company of the Mabrouk brothers' [...]
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Despite tensions over the renewable energy development programme (see here), [...]
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The Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (ONHYM), which [...]
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The Derham brothers' oil products distribution group Atlas Sahara has [...]
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Habib Belhamidi, head of the Algerie Energie Solaire (AES) group, [...]
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Mohammed Abdi, who was adviser to French secretary of state for urban policies Fadela Amara from 2007 to 2011, is [...]
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The current disappearance of eastern strong man Khalifa Haftar from the political and media scene has raised the hopes of [...]
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Dakhla-Oued Eddahab region president Ynja Khattat is to make wide use of private sector consultants to oversee the 100 billion [...]
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Moroccan agriculture minister Aziz Akhannouch's RNI party is moving ever [...]
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Italian MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri (MDP) wants to impose his [...]
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As he pursues his political negotiations with Tripoli and Misrata [...]
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The appointment on April 18 of Said Chekri to replace [...]
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Businessman Ismael Belkhayat, brother of former sports minister Moncef Belkhayat, [...]
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