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Coronavirus: Moroccans called to voluntary confinement

Moroccans have been called this Wednesday to stay home and restrict their movements. In a joint statement, the Interior and Health Ministries have called for voluntary isolation, urging the citizens to stay at home and limit their movement. Going out should be conditioned by absolute necessity, to make essential purchases, to go to the doctor […]

South Africa vows to use BRICS chair role to advance African interests

South Africa will use its chairmanship of the BRICS group of leading emerging economies — comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — to focus on advancing African interests, the country’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has said. South Africa has just taken over the chairmanship of the BRICS — a bloc widely seen as an […]

COVID-19: EU contributes €157 million to Morocco’s special fund, pledges more grants by year’s end

The European Union transferred a grant of €157 million (MAD 1.7 billion) to Morocco on Monday, May 26, to help the country in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic and vowed more grants by the end of 2020 to total €300 million. The amount was injected into Morocco’s Special Fund for the Management and Response […]