Jisr.media · In English
Jisr.media is an independent news outlet published in French and Arabic from Montreal, for Moroccans around the world and everyone interested in Morocco. Here you will find a selection of our work in English: investigations and analysis.
Friday Dossier No. 2 takes apart the 298 pages of the 2025 report by Morocco's national anti-corruption authority. Complaints more than quadrupled, but only 59 led to an in-depth investigation. The rules exist; their enforcement lags. Local government and the courts account for 60% of complaints. Investors will note a tax system scored 43 out of 100. And, following up on Dossier No. 1, our questions to OCP chief executive Mostafa Terrab.
Two investigations, one question. At UM6P's FGSES, grades were revised to fit a quota; across Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, the payroll exceeds 50 million dirhams a month, with exceptional salaries at the top. Teaching quality, departing professors, money from a state-owned company: what we know and what we are asking Hicham El Habti and Karim El Aynaoui.
Our investigation into UM6P's funding ends in Delaware: Bidra Innovation Ventures, a $250 million venture capital fund financed exclusively by OCP and its university, fully consolidated in the OCP group's accounts and registered in Delaware. One declared beneficiary, several names at the top, and no filing with the US regulator since 2023. Asked by Jisr.media, OCP and UM6P gave no details on how this investment is managed, or on any of the points raised in this investigation.
When the delegates go home, what will still work? As COP31 unfolds in Antalya, Emirati researcher Abdullah Saeed Al Habsi argues that climate policy will be judged by reliable public services, maintained infrastructure, trusted finance and the dignity of the people most exposed: the farmer, the nurse, the elderly resident, the emergency operator.
On the news, a flood ends when the water recedes. In farming villages, that is often when the hardest part begins. On the eve of COP31 in Antalya, Emirati researcher Abdullah Saeed Al Habsi writes about the farmer and the seasonal worker missing from damage reports, and about a recovery measured by the field that produces again.
The killing of children and civilians, in Ukraine, Palestine or Iran, has no moral justification. Iranian journalist Majid Motalebzadeh, a new contributor to Jisr.media, defends peoples rather than governments, denounces the price of sanctions paid by ordinary citizens, and calls on France to weigh in for peace.
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