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Morocco maintains its industrial effort to meet its needs of anti-covid equipment with the recent breakthrough of an SME that managed to make a prototype of thermal cameras that can be produced en masse. After ventilators, masks, infrared thermometers, protective gear, testing kits, intensive care beds, Moroccan engineers from the Nextronics start up made a […]
The fluid leak, which occurred lately in the submarine cable connecting Morocco and Spain, was repaired on Friday by Morocco’s National Office of Electricity (ONEE) and Red Eléctrica de España (REE). The leak was detected on July 30 in the reserve cable number 4 of the Moroccan-Spanish connection. Once the leak was located, the two […]
Libya’s renegade general, Khalifa Haftar, has derided the ceasefire declared by the rival governments in the East and West and his forces have already violated the truce with hostilities that risk ending the brim of hope that started to appear at the end of the Libyan infighting tunnel. Local Libyan media cited attacks by Pro-Haftar […]
As it prepares to host COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, the UK reached out to Morocco, host of COP22, which it described as a climate leader. The remarks were made by COP26 President and the British Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, Alok Sharma, at a video teleconference with Morocco’s Energy Minister […]
Part of the Moroccan private sector’ s increasing investments in the Horn of Africa, the group SOMAGEC is contributing to the building of an oil terminal in Djibouti. The Moroccan public works and civil engineering company is providing its expertise to Djibouti, which launched on Thursday the construction works of the new oil jetty, […]
UN envoy for Libya Stephanie Williams has said that the call for ceasefire launched lately by Fayez al-Sarraj, Prime Minister of the Govt. of National Accord (GNA) and Aguila Saleh Issa, Speaker of the House of Representatives in eastern Libya, offers a chance to move forward on intra-Libyan dialogue. During her virtual briefing on Wednesday […]
Moroccan startup MOLDIAG, created by the Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research (MAScIR), has launched the large-scale production of a 100% Moroccan diagnostic kit for COVID-19. The startup, which obtained, in May 2020, national and international validations, has already received a first order of 100,000 units from the Ministry of Health, MAScIR said Thursday […]
UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming has paid tribute to King Mohammed VI for his concern over coming generations and his vision pleading for offering these generations a dignified life and building a future of peace, stability, progress and prosperity for all. The UN official made the remarks in her opening statement before the […]
Many Moroccan middle class families are rushing to enroll their children in public schools as the coronavirus pandemic hit their pockets, forcing them to distance learning. In Agadir alone, a medium sized Moroccan City, over 2000 students left private schools this year for public schools. Among the other factors explaining this trend is the low […]
Korea International Cooperation Agency (Koica) and Global Care have unveiled a joint program aimed at supporting Morocco’s response to coronavirus pandemic and enhancing further the capacity and performance of Moroccan hospitals and health centers. Under this 5-month cooperation program, Moroccan health facilities will receive medical equipment and personal protective gears for health care workers to […]