{"id":13038,"date":"2025-10-17T06:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/moroccos-finance-minister-to-prioritise-health-education-in-upcoming-budget\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:09","slug":"moroccos-finance-minister-to-prioritise-health-education-in-upcoming-budget","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/moroccos-finance-minister-to-prioritise-health-education-in-upcoming-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco&#8217;s Finance Minister to prioritise health, education in upcoming budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Youth-led protests have spread across the kingdom in recent weeks, revealing anger over poverty and public services.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Alaoui says the youth have expressed their desire for better education and health through these protests. She says the government spends just under 9% of Gross Domestic Product on these two areas and that they will reallocate for quick wins, and reprioritize \u00a0projects such as getting local hospitals up and running in this budget.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13039,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-13038","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Morocco's Finance Minister, Nadia Fettah Alaoui, says the country will adjust its upcoming budget to prioritise spending on health and education as well as allocate some additional funds to reduce regional inequalities||Morocco's Finance Minister, Nadia Fettah Alaoui, says the country will adjust its upcoming budget to prioritise spending on health and education as well as allocate some additional funds to reduce regional inequalities","published_date":null,"news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18348,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13038\/revisions\/18348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}