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Since its independence, Morocco attached utmost importance to meeting its foodstuff needs from domestic production encouraging agriculture and agri-food industries, with the country now largely producing most of the food needs of its 37 million population at a time the global foodstuff supply chain is undergoing disruptions due to the coronavirus outbreak and shortage of […]
Paris-based magazine Jeune Afrique and other French media have highlighted the prowess of the Moroccan industrial sector as several units have shifted their production chains to manufacture items or products so badly needed in these coronavirus times. An ethanol plant was rehabilitated in a week, textile factories are being converted to manufacture facemasks, an industrial […]
The Moroccan government has extended for another month a countrywide confinement to stop the spread of the coronavirus, meaning people will have to stay home during the holy month of Ramadan. A joint statement of the health and the interior ministries said that the same protective and security measures imposed since March 20 will be […]
Morocco recorded over the past few days an increase of the new coronavirus cases that numbered Friday 281 in 24 hours, the highest daily increase in the country since the first case was recorded on March 2, and 106 new cases this Saturday. The surge in confirmed COVID-19 cases came as the Ministry of Health […]
Government of National Accord (GNA) leader Faiez Serraj Wednesday ruled out possibilities to sit down again at a negotiation table with his rival Khalifa Haftar that he accused of committing crimes against all Libyans. In an interview with Italy’s La Repubblica, published Wednesday, Serraj charged the east-based retired military General with bombing “indiscriminately Tripoli, residential […]
The pandemic situation is under control in Morocco as the anticipatory measures ordered by King Mohammed VI spared the country thousands of deaths, Health Minister Khaled Ait Taleb said. Speaking to MPs, Ait Taleb said Morocco is still at level 2 of its counter-pandemic strategy praising the wisdom and unity of command by King Mohammed […]
Senegalese President Macky Sall has expressed gratitude and appreciation for King Mohammed VI, who called Monday for a unified and concerted response to COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. King Mohammed VI of Morocco suggested in phone talks with President Alassane Dramane Ouattara of Côte d’Ivoire and President Macky Sall of Senegal the setting up of an […]
Radio France Internationale (RFI) has hailed Morocco for having adopted multiple initiatives that are sometimes “very innovative” to help underprivileged populations during the COVID-19 health crisis. “Since the onset of the coronavirus crisis, billions of euros have been mobilized by states and international institutions to try to cushion the country from the economic shock. However, […]
Morocco, along with the European Union and a group of core countries, took the initiative to draw a joint declaration to support the appeal launched last week by the UN Secretary General António Guterres for “peace at home, in households, around the world” against domestic violence during confinement. The initiative is the result of efforts […]
King Mohammed VI has agreed to put the Sébéninkoro Polyclinic at the disposal of the Government of Mali to help the West African country fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The Moroccan sovereign’s decision, made at the request of the President of Mali Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, was announced Saturday by Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita during a phone […]