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African countries have so far recorded 6555 confirmed coronavirus cases and 244 deaths, according to the covid-19-africa.sen.ovh website. According to the latest tally, the breakdown remains fluid as many countries across the continent imposed a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic. According to the Center for Disease […]
The United States has used drones to kill civilians in Somalia, human rights watchdog Amnesty International said on Wednesday. Amnesty says an 18-year-old woman and a 53-year-old banana farmer were killed in two separate drone strikes, one in the town of Jilib, the other in Kumbareere village. Three others were injured. The US […]
A court in capital Algiers Wednesday pressed a 15-year prison sentence associated with a $80,000-fine against former head of the national police, Major General Abdelghani Hamel, charged with corruption and illicit enrichment. The Sidi M’hamed court also handed individual sentences to the family of the General and their company. Hamel’s wife Lanani Salima is handed […]
The lockdown decided on March 20 by the Moroccan government to prevent the spread of the coronvirus pandemic has led to a sharp fall in Morocco’s motorway traffic. Travel by car on the country’s highways has dropped by 78 pc in one week (March 25-30) and plummeted by 90 pc during the weekend compared with […]
British online newspaper Byline Times has published a long story on how Morocco was prompt to adopt precautionary measures to curb the spread of contaminations by the coronavirus and how Moroccans showed cohesion and solidarity to face the health crisis. In the story titled “Morocco’s Cohesion and Solidarity is a Lesson to us All”, […]
The UNFPA has launched prevention and hygiene kits to support the Moroccan government’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic, which has so far killed 37 people in the country and infected 654, while 26 others recovered. To protect the most vulnerable people to several or fatal covid-19 infection in rural and urban areas, UN population agency […]
Major General Ahmed Al-Mismari, spokesperson of the Libyan National Army (LNA), revealed Wednesday that a Turkish warship fired missiles from Libyan waters at Al-Ajaylat area, but that there were no casualties , reported Libyan newspaper Al-Marsad. He said there were no casualties. In a press statement, Major General Al-Mismari said that the intervention of the […]
Ethiopia has postponed its parliamentary elections scheduled for August due to the coronavirus outbreak, the electoral commission said on Tuesday. “Due to the pandemic we were forced to suspend our activities,” said an Amharic-language statement from the National Electoral Commission. Ethiopia has as of April 1, confirmed 29 coronavirus cases. Infections have so […]
Moroccan engineers said they will convert Decathlon snorkel masks to be used as respirators for coronavirus patients as the total number of cases in the country hit 638 with 37 deaths. The initiative was announced by a group of engineers on their facebook page known as Ingénierie VS Covid 19. Morocco ordered 550 ventilators to […]
Credit rating agency, Moody’s, highlighted Morocco’s resilience to domestic and external shocks despite coronavirus propelling fewer tourists and exports which it said will be offset by lower energy imports. It maintained Morocco’s credit profile at Ba1 stable reflecting “demonstrated resilience to domestic and external shocks,” and buoyed by access to relatively deep domestic capital markets. […]