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British online newspaper Byline Times has published a long story on how Morocco was prompt to adopt precautionary measures to curb the spread of contaminations by the coronavirus and how Moroccans showed cohesion and solidarity to face the health crisis. In the story titled “Morocco’s Cohesion and Solidarity is a Lesson to us All”, […]
Credit rating agency, Moody’s, highlighted Morocco’s resilience to domestic and external shocks despite coronavirus propelling fewer tourists and exports which it said will be offset by lower energy imports. It maintained Morocco’s credit profile at Ba1 stable reflecting “demonstrated resilience to domestic and external shocks,” and buoyed by access to relatively deep domestic capital markets. […]
Moroccan nationals continue to dominate for the 7th consecutive year the list of the recipients of the European Union citizenship, according to figures on naturalization in the European Union for 2018, released on Monday by the EU statistics agency Eurostat. In 2018, some 67,200 Moroccans received the citizenship of Spain, Italy or France, representing […]
The Central bank said it will intervene to ensure there is enough cash for banks through increasing three-fold their refinancing capacity in dirham and hard currency. The move comes as a lifeline for Moroccan banks to offset the financial repercussions of coronavirus and help them offer loans for enterprises and households, the central bank said […]
Morocco launched a platform to assist SMEs willing to transform their industries to produce protective equipment to counter coronavirus. Industry and Trade Minister Moulay Hafid El Alamy shared on his twitter account a link to a website dedicated to small businesses that want to redirect their production to manufacture equipment and products that are […]
The over one hundred Sahrawis who have been stranded at the borders between Algeria and Mauritania after they were denied return to Tindouf, out of fear of the spread of coronavirus, spent days in the desert area without water or food and were totally ignored by the Polisario and their mentor, Algeria. Some of them, […]
Morocco said it will offer monthly payments to every head of a household who became unemployed due to the coronavirus lockdown which Morocco imposed from March 20 to April 20, the finance ministry said. The payments will be offered by the special fund, set up at the orders of King Mohammed VI to upgrade health […]
Morocco will buy ventilators, intensive care beds and laboratory equipment worth $200 million as the country struggles to contain the spread of the virus, the finance ministry said. Morocco is buying 1000 intensive care beds, 550 ventilators, 100,000 testing kits, 100,000 collection kits, imaging and scanning devices, pharmaceutical products and other equipment key to treating […]
The Moroccan Organization for Human Rights (OMDH) has called on the UN Secretary General and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees “to urgently intervene” to protect the Sahrawis sequestered in the polisario- controlled Tindouf camps against the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter sent lately to the UN Chief and UNHCR, the Moroccan Human rights watchdog […]
Moroccan pension fund CNSS will start distributing a monthly compensation to the people who lost their jobs due to the consequences of coronavirus. Since Morocco imposed a quarantine and banned all travel, many employees of the tourism sector, services and non-essential sectors lost their jobs or were unpaid. The economic monitoring committee said the people […]