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COVID-19: Clusters complicate Morocco’s confinement easing

Morocco reported on Friday 539 new coronavirus cases, the highest number of infections ever recorded, due primarily to hotspots linked to fruit-packaging plant in Lalla Mimouna, north of Kenitra. Clusters have become a nightmare for Moroccans eager to emerge from a lockdown enforced since March 20. The new hot spot, with 457 cases, came on […]

Polisario, ‘a Cold War Relic’- Spanish Writer

The Polisario is a ‘totalitarian organization’, representing an ideological anachronism peculiar to the Cold War era, said Spanish writer Jose Mariia Lizundia in an opinion article on La Provincia. The Polisario “is a myth created by some Sahraoui students in Moroccan universities in the 1970s in connivance with leftist Spanish military officials of the Franco […]

President Condé Pays Tribute to Morocco before Handing over AU Presidency to Rwanda’s President

Longstanding friend and ally of Morocco in Africa, President Alpha Conde of Guinea, paid tribute to Morocco on the sidelines of the 30th African Union’s Summit held in Addis Ababa January 28-29. “We are all aware of the role that late king Mohammed V played (in favor of Africa)” and the support that the late […]