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The restrictive measures and night curfew adopted by Morocco helped contain the coronavirus outbreak and cut infections by 85%, health minister said. The treatment based on chloroquine adopted by Morocco has helped many patients recover but studies have yet to be carried out on the side-effects, Khalid Ait Taleb said. The end of the confinement, […]
Norway and the Netherlands have contributed $2.5 million in a fish farming project launched Thursday in Morocco. The project is meant to promote aquaculture industry, techniques and skills in Morocco. It is supported by the UN Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO), Moroccan fisheries Department and the National Aquaculture Development Agency. The project, which is in […]
The Moroccan parliament has adopted a decree allowing the government to resort to unlimited foreign borrowing in order to ensure enough international reserves to fuel the economy. Morocco’s trade balance has been chronically suffering from a trade deficit that has deepened in the first quarter this year due to falling exports as a consequence of […]
Morocco has adopted pro-active measures without dragging its feet adopting economically painful measures that helped curb the spread of the coronavirus and lower the mortality rate to 3.9%, one of the world lowest. The number of recoveries is on the rise with 1055 people leaving hospital by May 1 amid 4529 patients while the number […]
The population of the Sahara is an integral part of the Moroccan people’s fabric and cannot be attached to a region according to ethnic or confessional connotations, commented Saudi daily Riyadh, noting that any approach to the Sahara issue must be wise and balanced. In a column by journalist Abdelrahman Al Jadie under the title […]
Morocco will review its 2020 appropriation bill in light of the macro-economic disruptions caused by the coronavirus and in preparation for the post-virus era, the economic monitoring committee said. The Committee, set up to address the consequences of the virus on the economy, said in its sixth meeting it will look into the cases of […]
The number of households that received financial aid from the Special Fund for the Covid-19 management has reached 5.1 million, said Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit on Wednesday at a parliamentary hearing. Stipends have been distributed to 800,000 people affiliated to National social security fund (CNSS), 2.3 million households having RAMED health card (medical assistance program […]
Morocco’s tourism promotion office (ONMT) is planning to encourage domestic tourism to compensate for losses due to the global impact of the coronavirus on international tourist arrivals. Prospects for a return to normalcy in the tourism sector before 2021 are bleak, said l’Economiste daily citing the office. “Hopes are therefore pinned on domestic demand as […]
The European Union lauded King Mohammed VI’s Africa initiative, calling for the establishment of an operational framework to support African countries in the management of the Covid-19 pandemic. “This initiative seems to fit perfectly with Morocco’s return to the African family, which we have observed with great interest for several years, especially in many areas […]
The Sahraouis held in inhuman conditions in the Poliairo-run camp with Algeria’s blessings are fleeing en masse to Mauritania over fears of the coronavirus outbreak, Mauritanian media reported. A convoy of 1,500 cars left the camps to northern Mauritanian localities of Tiris Zemmour and Adrar, Mauritanian media outlets reported. The media echoed concerns of the […]