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James Whitmee Today I visited Morocco Mall just outside Casablanca, which opened last month. It is marketed as the biggest destination shopping mall in Africa and the Mediterranean region, and was developed by AKSAL and Al Jedaie Group. It was very busy with queues to get in (although this is partly by design for security purposes), and it looks to be entirely let with some top-end brands (eg Louis Vuitton, Prada, Galeries Lafayette). Congestion was a bit of an issue when I visited. People park along the sea front for a kilometre or so, with the result that whenever someone parks or leaves it stops the traffic on the road. There is a very impressive aquarium as a central feature of the development which attracts big crowds. This is shown in the photograph below.
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