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Following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, France has restricted access to its territory and tightened control of travelers circulating within the Schengen area. According to latest data published by French Interior ministry, the number of visas issued in 2020 by French consulates and embassies plummeted by 79.8 pc to 712,311 from 3.5 million visas […]
Libyan delegations representing the High Council of State and the Libyan House of Representatives gathered in Bouznika Friday for a new round of inter-Libyan dialogue. This new round of dialogue comes in the wake of the previous meetings held by the two parties in September, October and November in Bouznika and Tangier. These meetings led […]
Morocco has received Friday the first shipment of the British Astrazeneca vaccine, manufactured in India, the Ministry of Health announced in a statement. A RAM airplane flew to Mumbai Thursday and returned to Morocco Friday with onboard two million doses of the coronavirus vaccine, ending weeks of waiting and uncertainties. The Indian embassy […]
Time and money are running out for Algeria as it eats into its foreign reserves trying to avert the inevitable: bankruptcy. The country’s Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad has ordered an urgent spending cut to try to offset falling income from oil and gas. An unexpected rise in spending in 2020 due to the […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has dealt a severe blow to African transporters, who in 2020 experienced a historic drop in business. According to data published by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) last week, they have lost $14 billion in revenue in passenger transport over the past year. In 2020, the continent’s airlines recorded a drop […]
The African Union Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa-CDC) has sounded the alarm over case-fatality rate of the coronavirus on the continent as it stands at 2.5%, compared to 2.2% worldwide. Underlining that the second wave of the epidemic is proving more deadly in Africa, the Africa-CDC announced on Thursday that the case-fatality rate […]
Morocco has sent an airplane to Mumbai to ship the coronavirus vaccine, ending weeks of waiting and uncertainties. The plane is on its way to India as the foreign ministry there cleared the commercial exports of COVID-19 vaccines, with the first consignments to be shipped to Morocco and Brazil, the Indian foreign minister told Reuters. […]
Three Tunisians were injured Thursday in a landmine explosion in Gabès Governorate, according to a security source. A security source from the National Guard told local radio Mosaique fm the incident took place near the commune of Mareth, in Wadi Ghiran. The victims, aged 33, 40 and 46, saw a piece of iron and started […]
Polish manufacturer of professional luminaires and lighting systems, LUG Light Factory, on Thursday signed a declaration of intent to invest in Morocco’s Southern provinces. The document declares the company’s intent to open a production unit of 1electrical equipment, as part of a joint venture with a local operator. The President of the Polish group, Ryszard […]
Representatives of Libya’s High Council of State and of the Tobruk-based Parliament are expected to meet on Friday Jan. 22 in the Moroccan city of Bouzkina (near Rabat) to discuss the appointment to several senior key positions, according several press reports. Libyan rivals held several meetings in the Moroccan cities of Bouznika, Skhirate and Tangier […]