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News: Headlines from the Moroccan Press: Monday, August 19, 2019

AUJOURD'HUI LE MAROC
The Kingdom takes the future and present of its young people very seriously: For a Morocco made by and for its youths:
All the country's institutions are aware of the need to adopt these policies to meet the real needs of Moroccan youth. Young people who expect solutions that are more adapted to the times in which they live...

Eid Al Adha 1440: Successful slaughter operation:
The slaughter operation was carried out in good conditions this year. This was confirmed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries, Rural Development and Water and Forestry. The Department of Agriculture points out in a recent communication that the action plan for Eid Al Adha 1440 adopted for the second consecutive year has enabled the slaughter operation for sacrifice to take place in good conditions...


LE MATIN DU SAHARA
On behalf of Africa, Morocco is seeking the presidency of the United Cities and Local Governments:
The President of the Moroccan Association of Local Council Presidents (AMPCC), Mohamed Boudra, will be Africa's candidate for the presidency of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG). He was elected by a majority of the votes of the UCLG-Africa Executive Board and will have to face the Russian Candidate, the Mayor of Kazan, Ilsur Metshin...

Draft Budget 2020 : The government is expecting growth of 3.7%:
Growth is expected to pick up again next year. According to the government's prognosis, the national economy is expected to grow by 3.7% in 2020. The Executive is more optimistic than the HCP, which expects growth of 3.4% compared to 2.7% expected this year and 3% recorded in 2018. In the policy note addressed to the various ministerial departments, the head of government forecasts a butane gas price of around $350 per tonne and an average agricultural season of 70 million quintals...


LES INSPIRATIONS ÉCO
State budget. Major financing needs:
If the increase in the State budget's revenue has not succeeded in containing the upward trend in the public deficit (see: Les Inspiration ÉCO, edition of August 16, 2019), it is because the State's expenses are constantly going down an exponential curve. At the end of July 2019, commitments of expenditure, including those not subject to prior commitment approval, amounted to MAD 318.2 million, representing an overall commitment rate of 58%, the same level as at the end of July 2018...

Moroccans of the world. Who are they? :
This book published by the Hassan II Foundation for Moroccans living abroad is in its fourth edition. After the editions of 2003, 2007 and 2013, this new publication does a commendable job to report on the situation of the MdM on the five continents...


LIBERATION
The Polisario is losing more and more ground between illusions and setbacks:
It excels, no doubt, in the lamentations and laments that have the purpose of drawing tears and emotional cords to its followers and other minions and flocks of Algeria and elsewhere. The Polisario is, in fact, a master in this art of intoxication and misinformation that it knows marvelously mate Scapin cunning. It's always used to it...

Managem announces a lower turnover:
Managem performance alert in the first half of 2019. The mining group issued a warning on its turnover announcing that it will experience a fall of about 300 million dirhams, at the end of the first six months of the year...