Morocco’s new billionaire prime minister Aziz Akhannouch has vowed to transform Morocco into a “social state”. Breaking his no-media policy since winning the September 8 elections, premier Aziz Akhannouch appeared late on Wednesday in his first interview as Morocco’s head of government to speak on his cabinet’s achievements in its first 100 days. “51 billion dirhams (US$5.48 billion) will be allocated to [the social state]; Of this, 23 billion came from the state’s general budget, and 28 billion dirhams came from individual contributions,” said Akhannouch. In the prime minister’s interview wit…

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