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Soulaiman Raissouni, editor in chief of Akhbar Al Yawm, was arrested and will stand trial for sexual assault and detention after a complaint by an LGBT activist in a case that has created controversy between Moroccan rights groups. AMDH, one of the largest rights groups in the country, has already taken sides issuing a statement […]
Algeria’s main source of revenue, oil and gas company Sonatrach, has seen troubles piling up as it struggles to juggle with historically low oil prices. The company, which accounts for more than 90% of Algeria’s exports, was dealt another blow with the cancelation of a supply contract with Spain’s Naturgy. Sonatrach will be obliged to […]
King Mohammed VI has called on the Moroccan private sector to conduct massive testing to protect the employees and resume activity in a secure environment, as part of the participatory management of the Covid 19 pandemic. The Ministry of Health and the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (CGEM) said in a joint statement that this […]
Moroccan MPs will discuss on June 11 the government’s exit strategy from the ongoing covid-19 lockdown enforced in the country since March 20 to prevent the spread of the pandemic. The parliamentary debate comes as the authorities are preparing to lift the lockdown on June 10 after having extended the public health emergency twice. “The […]
Morocco’s mining and hydrocarbons office ONHYM was tasked with overseeing the supply and the storing of oil after the Moroccan government’s request to rent the storage tanks of Samir refinery was approved by the commercial court. Morocco’s only refiner Samir in Mohammedia has been shutdown since 2015 due to unpaid debt to the state and […]
Moroccan ministry of health has launched a massive Covid-19 testing campaign in all regions of Morocco, as part of the preparation for the lifting of the containment. The massive screening campaign to last until late July or early August in all regions of Morocco projects to conduct 1,790,000 screening tests and 125,000 early diagnosis tests. […]
On the African continent, as elsewhere in the world, reactions are mounting after the death in the United States of a black man who was smothered in police violence in Minneapolis last week. The African Union, the first to react, as early as last Friday, protested against the conditions of George Floyd’s death. In a […]
Spain’s justice system has inflicted a new blow to the Polisario separatist front by prohibiting the display of its pennant in public buildings. The Spanish Supreme Court, the country’s highest judicial body, has vetoed the use, occasional or permanent, of “unofficial” flags or any political expression inside and outside public buildings. The court’s decision constitutes […]
France Monday offered Tunisia a €80 million check to help the North African country tackle the covid-19 pandemic which has infected 1,087 and killed 49 people. France’s ambassador to Tunisia Olivier Poivre d’Arvor told, in a telephone talk, Tunisian Minister of Development, Investment and International Cooperation, that money is meant to alleviate social and economic […]
Lockheed Martin has confirmed the start of the production of fighter jets and attack helicopters ordered by Morocco in an army modernization push that also includes establishing a domestic military industry. The Royal Armed Forces have placed a $9 billion order for the acquisition of 25 F16 jets and 36 Appache helicopters that will help […]