Salary increase for Moroccan army, gendarmerie and royal guard

Elements of the Royal Armed Forces, the Royal Gendarmerie and the Royal Guard will have a salary increase.

The decision was announced in Rabat Wednesday by King Mohammed VI, supreme chief and chief of the general staff of the Royal Armed Forces, at the beginning of a ministers' council.

A statement by the official spokesman for the royal palace said King Mohammed VI, who was accompanied by Prince Moulay Rachid, chaired Wednesday at the royal palace in Rabat over a ministers' council, and announced his decision to "improve the financial situation of the elements of the Royal Armed Forces, the Royal Gendarmerie and the Royal Guard through increasing servicemen's salaries to align them on the guaranteed minimum wage and through reducing the gap between the salaries of officers and non-commissioned officers."

The king instructed the government to speedily implement the decision, the spokesman said.