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A Royal Air Maroc Dreamliner carrying the first batch of vaccines from the Chinese Sinopharm laboratory factory landed at the Mohammed V airport in Casablanca this Wednesday morning. The first batch includes 500,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by the Chinese laboratory. The Kingdom had ordered 45 million doses. This is the second batch […]
Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi won a confidence vote from the parliament for the recent cabinet shake-up that saw the entry of 11 new ministers. Lawmakers approved Mechichi’s new picks for the ministries of interior, justice, health, employment, industry, energy, agriculture, environment, sports, culture and land affairs. Mechichi conducted the reshuffle on Jan. 16 on […]
Few days after the Israeli cabinet approved the normalization deal with Morocco, Israeli chargé d’affaires arrived in Rabat to start building its diplomatic network through reactivating the liaison office which has been closed since 2000. David Goverin, who had served as ambassador to Egypt, will serve as a temporary “chargé d’affaires,” the Israeli foreign ministry […]
Morocco’s General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance (DGST), equivalent of UK’s MI5, has tipped off the FBI about a terrorist plot hatched by a US soldier who was nabbed by US authorities on January 19, said on Tuesday Mr. Haboub Cherkaoui, Head of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ). The case of US Army private […]
The pandemic and the restrictive measures related to it have taken a toll on Moroccan firms with 38% having been forced to cut staff while 8% have suspended activity waiting for better conditions, Morocco’s statistics agency (HCP) said. Some 83% of all enterprises maintained business despite Covid-19 while 2.2% halted activity all together, the agency […]
Indian businesswoman Rashmi Chowdhary has become Morocco’s first honorary consul taking office in Calcutta, capital of the Indian State of West Bengal. Mrs. Chowdhary has started her new job in the consulate which has been inaugurated during a ceremony attended by Moroccan ambassador to India Mohamed Maliki, several local business leaders, representatives of finance corporations, […]
The European Investment Bank (EIB) will support income-generating microcredit activities in Morocco with a €10 million loan. The loan to be extended to the financing company of microfinance organizations “Jaida” will strengthen the company’s capacity to finance microfinance institutions in Morocco and support its action meant to promote financial inclusion and social development, said a […]
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has donated the Moroccan National Center for Scientific and Technical Research (CNRST) seven high-tech earthquake early warning equipment. The high-tech early warning equipment will allow to detect quakes just before their occurrence and to launch warning messages through loudspeakers. They can also be of great use […]
The states militarily involved in Libya have totally ignored the UN injunctions to leave the country before Saturday, January 23. The Libyan political agreement signed in Geneva last October called for the departure of all foreign mercenaries within 90 days of its signature. However, the deadline passed unfulfilled. “All regional and international parties must respect […]
Olfa Hamdi, the new CEO of Tunisia’s national carrier, has named an international committee to help her implement a reconstruction program for the low performing airline. The committee is made up of national and global aviation industry leaders. The nine-member strategic committee includes Mitchell Weisberg, former Kaplan Norton team member, Expert in strategy of Fortune […]