FINANCIAL MARKET HEADLINES
| MALI | BOA MALI | Net income up 25% in Q1 2021
In Q1 2021, BOA MALI's NBI shows an increase of 27.9% to FCFA 9.0 Bn. Similarly, net income recorded an increase of 25.1% to FCFA 1.5 Bn.
ECONOMIC HEADLINES
| MOROCCO | VEHICLES | Sales up 74% at the end of April 2021
In April 2021, new vehicles’ sales in Morocco reached 14,793 units against 1,683 units in April 2020 and 12,305 units in April 2019. The aggregate sales during the first 4 months of 2021 jumped by 74.3% to 58,956 units. In more details, private cars sales in-creased by 77.2% to 52.185 units while light commercial vehicles rose by 67.7% to 6,771 units.
| MOROCCO | CEMENT | Domestic consumption up 19% at the end of April 2021
Cement sales more than doubled from 552,472 tons in April 2020 to 1,169,146 tons in April 2021. In this context, domestic con-sumption during the first 4 months of 2021 stood at 4,563,355 tons, i.e. an increase of 19.5% compared to the same period of the previous year.
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