Morocco has extended the vaccination campaign to people over 65 years old after it received a new batch of 4 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Some countries have withheld the vaccine for people over 65. But AstraZeneca maintains its jabs are efficient for all age groups. The World Health Organization experts have also recommended […]
The United Nations and African Union have called for calm in Senegal after at least 15 people were killed in an outbreak of violence following the sentencing of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko. The sentencing of opposition politician Sonko for two years in jail on charges of ‘corrupting youth’ sparked some of the deadliest violence in […]
Japan has offered Morocco a loan of $200 million to back the coronavirus response program. An agreement was signed in this regards between Morocco’s finance ministry and Japan’s international cooperation agency (JICA). This loan aims at helping the government deal with the health, social and economic repercussions of the pandemic. JICA has been operating in […]
