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Coronavirus pushed Morocco’s tourism promotion office to focus on domestic tourists

Morocco’s tourism promotion office (ONMT) is planning to encourage domestic tourism to compensate for losses due to the global impact of the coronavirus on international tourist arrivals. Prospects for a return to normalcy in the tourism sector before 2021 are bleak, said l’Economiste daily citing the office. “Hopes are therefore pinned on domestic demand as […]

US-Africa: Trump’s Travel Ban Could Extend to Nigeria

The Trump administration is poised to add several African countries, including Nigeria, to a US travel ban list.   According to local media, the White House is considering Tanzania, Eritrea, Sudan and Nigeria for the new travel restrictions, to coincide with the three-year anniversary of Trump’s original executive order, which targeted majority Muslim nations.   […]

France bans adoption of Burkinabe children as ties with Ouagadougou deteriorate

France’s Foreign ministry has suspended all international adoption procedures concerning children habitually resident in Burkina Faso by any person residing in France, “Sputnik” reports. “This measure does not apply “to procedures that have given rise, on the date of publication of this order, to a relationship by the Burkinabe Central Authority for the implementation of […]