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Morocco starts using coronavirus contact tracing app

Morocco launched an app that helps users detect covid-19 exposure and informs them when they get in contact with a positive case. The optional app was launched by the health and interior ministries in cooperation with other telecom agencies in the country to help monitor and avert the spread of the disease. The app, dubbed […]

Algeria: Appeal court upholds sentences against Said Bouteflika, Gen. Toufik, Tartag

An appeal court in Algiers upheld 15-year in jail sentence against Said Bouteflika, the brother of former President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika, and against the former commander of intelligence services, Mohamed Medienne aka Toufik. The two men, in addition to General Athmane “Bachir” Tartag, were handed 15 years in jail sentences in September for plotting against […]

Covid-19: Traditional Labor Day rallies cancelled in Morocco

The Moroccan government has decided to ban the  Labor Day rallies  traditionally held on May 1st due to the ongoing restrictions imposed in the country to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.   The state of public health emergency has been extended in Morocco on April 10 for another month. Furthermore, the North African […]