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Less than three weeks after it launched its large-scale immunization campaign against COVID-19, Morocco has inoculated 1.4 million people in a campaign that is unfolding in the best conditions and witnessing a strong mobilization of citizens, while in Algeria the pseudo-vaccination campaign is taking place in total chaos. According to the real-time vaccination counting […]
The International Finance Corporation has pledged to help Moroccan women reach more leadership positions in the business world under an agreement inked Friday in Casablanca with Club des Femmes Administrateurs (CFA). IFC will train members of CFA on a range of topics relating to corporate governance, as well as conduct outreach activities to strengthen the […]
Morocco is poised to reach herd immunity in three to five months which would enable a restoration of normalcy, health minister said. His statement comes after Morocco received a new batch of 4 million AstraZeneca doses enabling the ministry to extend the vaccination to people over 65 years old. Morocco had received last month two […]
The new Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dabaiba has commended on Thursday Morocco’s renewed determination to continue to support national reconciliation in Libya. This came in a tweet he posted on Thursday evening, after a phone call with Moroccan Foreign Affairs Minister Nasser Bourita. Dabaiba, who was elected on February 5 in Switzerland as head of […]
France, an ally and a historic strategic partner of Morocco, must be part of the dynamic prompted by the US recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara, said on Thursday Benjamin Griveaux, member of the French National Assembly and co-founder of La République en Marche, the Presidential majority party. The United States’ has recently […]
A Council of Ministers that was held in Fez Thursday under the chairmanship of King Mohammed VI approved the draft framework law on social protection for all. The draft law was approved as part of the implementation of the King’s guidelines, as expounded in the Throne Day speech in July, and in the speech […]
Morocco has extended the vaccination campaign to people over 65 years old after it received a new batch of 4 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Some countries have withheld the vaccine for people over 65. But AstraZeneca maintains its jabs are efficient for all age groups. The World Health Organization experts have also recommended […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied Wednesday rejected the idea of calling on foreign intervention in the conflict opposing him and Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi over the inauguration of five ministers suspected for conflict of interest. The crisis between Saied and Mechichi further soured late last month as the Tunisian leader disapproved despite vote of confidence by […]
The Ministers council chaired by King Mohammed VI Thursday adopted four legal texts governing the next general elections. The four organic laws aim at boosting the efficiency of the electoral system and set guidelines for financial support offered to political parties with the aim of adding more transparency to the electoral process. In this respect, […]
King Mohammed VI has urged the cabinet to take all necessary measures to avoid that tragedies like the one that took place in Tangier last Monday occur again. The king issued his instructions while chairing over a Ministers’ Council in Fez Thursday. The Sovereign questioned the minister of the Interior about the tragic […]