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Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, Morocco adopted a set of preventive measures to face the looming health crisis. Part of the measures it adopted, Morocco imposed the compulsory wearing of masks and mobilized several industrial units to produce locally protective facemasks, a move that was described by international media a success story as […]
The struggling car industry on which Algeria pinned hopes to jump start its industry has received another bad news with the shutdown of a Kia assembly plant on the footsteps of Volkswagen. Long described as “disguised imports” Algeria’s policy of attracting car assembly plants since 2012 has so far showed disappointing results and came up […]
Morocco has received lately 36 respirators and 98,000 facemasks donated by Chinese state-owned Development Bank (CDB). The donation comes after Bank of Africa (BOA) of Moroccan BMCE Group had sent four months ago medical supplies to China following the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei province. After the Chinese hospitals, doctors and health workers were overwhelmed […]
The Moroccan government has decided to extend the state of health emergency for three more weeks until June 10. The announcement was made by Head of Government Saâd-Eddine El Othmani this Monday before the Parliament’s two chambers. The state of emergency, previously scheduled to end on May 20, was one of Morocco’s boldest measures to […]
The police of the Moroccan northern city of Mdiq-Fnideq arrested, Sunday evening, six individuals, a Spanish citizen of Moroccan origin and five Algerians, suspected of involvement in the organization of illegal immigration, illegal stay in Morocco, refusal to comply and violation of the state of health emergency. According to the first elements of the investigation, […]
A panel of experts under UN Libya Sanction Committee has accused a UAE company for supplying helicopters and boats to rebel General Khalifa Haftar to attack vessels off Libyans coasts, Anadolu news agency reports. In confidential letters, the Panel of Experts has named Emirati company Fulcrum Holding in the purchase of six helicopters and two […]
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has received several sachets of artemisia-based tea, which the Malagasy authorities praise as a remedy against the new coronavirus. The Covid-Organics will be tested by NAFDAC, the agency in charge of food and drug control in Nigeria, before being made available. Visiting President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, handed over the […]
The Sudanese army Sunday said a soldier killed Saturday two occupants of a tuk-tuk that sped through a military checkpoint in Khartoum during a coronavirus curfew. “A speeding motorized rickshaw drove through a military checkpoint in Khartoum without stopping… at 9:00 pm” on Saturday evening, army spokesman Brigadier Amer Mohamed al-Hassan said in a brief […]
The Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) announced that the National Brigade of Judicial Police arrested this Sunday four individuals, including a police officer reporting to the DGST Regional Directorate in Tangier. An official press release, the first ever in the history of the domestic intelligence agency, indicates that the four individuals were arrested for […]
Morocco’s impressive management of the coronavirus health crisis, which stands as a model, in the view of several observers, is still attracting the attention of international media. The strategy adopted by Morocco to fight the COVID-19 pandemic is based on containment, high technology and financial support for the most needy, German weekly Die Zeit commented […]