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The Lebanese government expressed its deep gratitude and high esteem for the generous initiative of King Mohammed VI who ordered urgent medical and humanitarian aid to be sent to Lebanon after the tragic blasts that shook the port of Beirut. On Thursday, August 6, King Mohammed VI ordered the Moroccan government to send medical and […]
The Moroccan national police in Oujda, eastern Morocco, seized, Friday evening, 20 kg of gold plates and nearly €2.500 million supposedly coming from criminal activities. In a press release, the Directorate General of National Security (DGSN) indicates that the research and investigations carried out in this case made it possible to arrest four individuals for […]
Six Moroccan aircrafts carrying vital humanitarian aid have arrived in Beirut, which was devastated by a blast that submerged Beirut in debris. The aid was sent upon orders from King Mohammed VI who also instructed the setting up of a field hospital to treat blast stricken population of the city where hundreds lost their lives […]
Morocco’s battered tourism sector will receive a lifeline provided operators retain 80% of jobs, according to a public-private deal covering 2020-2022. The plan will help restore 2019 levels in two years through direct aid to the sector including through maintaining social support measures. This means the employees who had to stop working because of Covid-19 […]
There were 500,000 more unemployed people in Morocco by June 2020, compared to the same period last year, said the high commission for planning in its updated job market figures since the virus outbreak. The coronavirus and drought have caused a loss of 185,000 jobs in the rural world and 311,000 in urban areas, the […]
Member of the European Parliament Olivier Chastel has raised the issue of the ongoing embezzlement by the Polisario and Algeria of EU humanitarian aid sent annually to the Sahrawis sequestered in the Tindouf camps. This confirms a growing concern of MEPs over this misappropriation, which was decried by Italian human rights NGOs. In his written […]
King Mohammed VI gave his high instructions to send emergency medical and humanitarian aid to Lebanon following the tragic explosion in the port of Beirut that killed over 135 people, injured some 5000, and made significant material damage. The sovereign thus gave his high instructions for the deployment in Beirut of a military field hospital […]
Morocco has extended the state of health emergency, decreed in March, until September 10, 2020, as part of efforts to stem the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. The health emergency extension decree was approved this Thursday by a cabinet council, chaired by Head of Government Saad Eddine El Othmani. This is the fifth time that […]
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) announced on Wednesday that 60 Moroccan peacekeepers are finally on their way home from the DRC. The peacekeepers left the city of Bunia, capital of the province of Ituri, to go further east to Goma in the province of North Kivu, on […]
Morocco’s health ministry gave a go-ahead for home isolation of coronavirus cases as a surge in infections loaded hospitals in some major cities such as Casablanca and Tangier. The ministry said that asymptomatic infected people will be asked to receive their treatment at home provided that other family members or flat-mates leave the house for […]