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Several Moroccan companies have converted their production chains to make personal protective gears (facemasks/shields, gloves…) and even ventilators to help combat the shortage due to the coronavirus pandemic. Sensing the urgent needs, some companies worked night shifts to scale up the country’s daily production of face-masks to over 3.3 million, while other firms such as […]
The United States announced it has killed a founding member of the militant Islamist group al-Shabab, Yusuf Jiis, in an airstrike in Somalia carried out on April 2. The US Africa Command said in a press release Tuesday that its post-strike assessments confirm that one of the three terrorists killed in the command’s Apr. 2 […]
Qatar will send two field hospitals to Italy, the world’s hardest hit country by the novel coronavirus outbreak, joining thus a string of countries, including China, Cuba and Turkey that have been helping Italy to address the outbreak. The medical aid will support the European country in its efforts to combat the coronavirus epidemic, Qatari […]
An Italian priest who was kidnapped in Niger in September 2018 has been seen alive in a video by Islamist militants. Father Pierluigi Maccalli, a priest of the Society for African Missions, was kidnapped in 2018 by armed men in Bomoanga village – located more than 100km from the capital, Niamey. Air Info newspaper, which […]
Algeria’s central bank Tuesday issued a stimulus package including ability for retail lenders to defer loan payments for firms, which have been financially affected by the coronavirus crisis. Banks will continue to finance customers benefiting from loan payment deferrals, while reducing their minimum liquidity requirement to raise funding levels. The North African country has been […]
Morocco is about to tap into a $3 billion precautionary liquidity line, offered by the IMF in 2018 to help the country face external shocks, Moroccan media reported. The Moroccan government removed the limit on foreign debt on Monday in order to meet its financing needs amid a rise in expenditures and a drop in […]
Morocco is mobilizing all its medical resources and infrastructures to expand its Covid-19 treatment capacity and provide more ICU beds, ventilators and healthcare staff to help contain the coronavirus pandemic, which has so far killed 90 people in the country, infected 1,184, while 88 others recovered. To support the country’s response efforts, the Royal Armed […]
King Mohammed VI has appointed Saied Amzazi government spokesman and Othman El Firdaws culture, youth and sports minister in replacement of Hassan Abyaba. Saied Amzazi will act as spokesman for the government while keeping his portfolio as education minister. Western educated EL Firdouas had served in the current government as Secretary of State to the […]
The World Health Organization chief has angrily slammed as “racist” and a remnant of the “colonial mentality” recent comments made by two French scientists suggesting a vaccine for the new coronavirus should be tested in Africa. “Africa cannot and will not be a testing ground for any vaccine,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a […]
The Covid-19 pandemic, which affected so far 1,423 and killed 173 people in Algeria, does not prevent the Algerian justice system from punishing “Hirak” activists and journalists. On Monday, Abdelouahab Fersaoui, president of the Rassemblement-Actions-Jeunesse (RAJ), an association at the forefront of the anti-regime popular movement, known as “Hirak”, was handed a one year in […]