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The US, Canada and many European countries are trying to lure doctors including Moroccans to migrate offering them facilitated migration process and financial advantages as they seek to bridge the gap in physicians created by the coronavirus outbreak. French media said that there was a race between European laboratories and hospitals to attract Moroccan, Tunisian […]
The Moroccanness of the Sahara remains unequivocal, immutable and irreversible, despite the hostile maneuvers hatched by Algeria and the polisario, said French Lawyer Hubert Seillan. The Sahara is Moroccan and cannot be anything else than that, he said in an interview with a local news outlet. He affirmed that the Moroccanness of the Sahara has […]
The ventilator developed by Moroccan scientists for critically-ill covid-19 patients is currently undergoing clinical tests to prove its efficiency, safety and performance. Dubbed “iVent, this breathing machine, which has become a hot commodity with the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic, has been made by a team of Moroccan experts from Research Institute for Solar Energy and […]
The number of people a coronavirus positive case can infect dropped to 0.8 nationwide amid a partial confinement that runs until June 10. Prime Minister Saad Eddine EL Othmani had said that easing the lockdown hinges on lowering the transmission rate and the mortality rate, which now stands below 3%. By Friday, industrial clusters continued […]
Four Covid-19 related projects designed by four Moroccan universities have been selected by l’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) to receive grants from the agency’s €1 million fund for COVID-19 research, AUF said in a press release issued this Friday. The Moroccan projects are among 92 projects from 87 member institutions in 44 countries that […]
Algeria has been pushing above its weight announcing ambitions to enter the Sahel market without having prepared the necessary infrastructure and competitiveness. Algeria opened a border crossing with Mauritania in 2018 to enable exports of foodstuff through trucks towards Mauritania’s capital Nouakchott. Most Algerian trucks depart from Tindouf, crossing a distance of nearly 3000 km, […]
Morocco’s spending on subsidies of basic consumer goods dropped to 2.2 billion dirhams by April, from 5 billion dirhams the same period last year. The drop in subsidies bill was mainly ascribed to the 68% decrease in the cost of butane gas as well as sugar prices. Morocco also subsidies flour. Therefore, it is expected […]
Thirty-one pregnant women have tested positive for coronavirus in Morocco since the beginning of the pandemic, the health ministry said Thursday. Thirty of these pregnant women showed no symptoms of the disease, and one of them was tested positive while her health condition was rather severe, said director of Epidemiology and Disease Control at […]
The Spanish security services dismantled on Wednesday, with the help of Moroccan national police, a four-member terrorist cell led by a Moroccan in Spain, said ABC newspaper. The emir of the cell had fled Morocco to settle in Barcelona years ago. He moved lately to the region of Madrid where he got a farming job. […]
The recent decision by the Moroccan state to rent the storage platforms of Samir refinery was seen by staff and analysts as a first step towards finding a solution to the plant that would lead to relaunching the refining activity in the country. Morocco’s only refiner Samir in Mohammedia has been shut down since 2015 […]