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EU to redirect €450 mln to support Morocco’s response to Covid-19

The EU will redirect €450 million promised to Morocco this year to help the country better respond to the coronavirus outbreak.   The amount includes €150 million that will be injected directly in the special fund created by Morocco to fund health system acquisitions and offset the social and economic repercussion of the pandemic, according […]

The Irish Times Commends Morocco’s Religious Diplomacy

To counter extremism, King Mohammed VI has set up a training center for Imams, Murshideen and Murshidat (male and female preachers) to spread the true values of Islam, said Monday the Irish Times. The center, opened in 2015, is housing 1,200 live-in students from Morocco, sub-Saharan Africa and France. Dubbed Mohammed VI Institute for the […]

Algeria arrests economists who criticized Tebboune’s iron mine project

Reports suggested that Algerian economist and financial-engineering expert Djelloul Slama has been detained after commenting on the country’s iron-ore megaproject project, marketed as an economic milestone by the regime of Tebboune. Slama is a well-known media commentator whose analyses on Algerian economic policy, fiscal imbalances and structural challenges are widely disseminated in Algeria. He is […]