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The Moroccan Lawyers’ Club has slammed two French doctors, who suggested on a French TV show that treatment for COVID-19 should be first tested on Africans. The comments were made by the president of the French Intensive Care Society, Jean-Paul Mira, and a research director at the French National Institute of Health and Medical […]
Some 600,000 Moroccan students use daily the online learning TelmidTICE platform launched by the ministry of education after it decided to close schools, universities… and shift courses online to prevent the spread of Covid-19 pandemic. Over 3000 courses covering a wide variety of subjects including science, mathematics…are accessible to primary and secondary education students thanks […]
Since the health emergency was decreed in Morocco on March 20 to fight the Covid-19 spread, thousands of people have attempted to violate the rules, but that was without counting on the vigilance of the security services. Thus, since the enforcement of the laws governing the quarantine period and providing for sanctions against those who […]
Volcano of Rage Operation, a command force answering to UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), destroyed Thursday fuel and ammunition shipment en route for forces aligned with east-based rebel Gen. Khalifa Haftar, in Tripoli, Libya Observer reports. A first shipment was shelled in Tininay area, in south Bani Walid, the media notes citing the command’s […]
The Paris Club of creditor countries have agreed to restructure Somalia’s external public debt with an immediate cancellation of $1.4 billion. The decision cancels 67% of the debts owed to Paris Club by Somalia. Several of Somalia’s Paris Club creditors, including the United States, the UK and Norway, as well as the World Bank and […]
The United Nations World Food Program has negotiated a humanitarian corridor to keep food aid flowing in southern Africa during the Coronavirus outbreak, Reuters reports. Several Southern African governments have closed borders, canceled flights and imposed strict entry and quarantine requirements to contain the spread of the new coronavirus. Up to 45 million people in […]
Turkey’s top electronics defense contractor, Aselsan, Thursday revealed that it has received for the first quarter of the year orders estimated at $320 million despite ongoing difficult global business operations over the coronavirus outbreak. Aselsan “continued its growth trend in the first three months of 2020 without losing momentum,” the company Chairman Haluk Görgün said […]
UNESCO has appointed Moroccan artificial intelligence expert, Mrs. Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, to the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST). The Moroccan researcher joins the commission for a four-year term, from 2020 to 2023. “It is an honor for me to serve ethics within this beautiful institution that is UNESCO,” […]
After Morocco imposed a confinement to contain the coronavirus outbreak, some 700,000 workers in 113,000 companies whose activity came to a halt will receive 1000 dirhams in March and 2000 for the next three months, Labor Minister Mohamed Amekraz said. He said the employees affiliated to the pension fund CNSS will return to their job […]
A reverse migration is taking place in the Detroit of Gibraltar as coronavirus wreaks havoc in Spain. Dozens of Moroccan youth had to pay traffickers up to $6000 to take them to Moroccan coast, local papers reported. Moroccan security services are on alert to bring assistance to the Moroccans who are fleeing Spain on inflatable […]