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Authorities in Madagascar have recently launched an impressive reforestation campaign to plant 60 million trees, in reference to the sixtieth anniversary of the country’s independence, which will take place on June 26, 2020. Last week, close to 10,000 people planted up to 1.2 million trees in one day. Madagascar, once called the great green island, […]
A Canadian woman and an Italian man kidnapped in Burkina Faso in 2018 were picked up by UN forces and transferred over the weekend to Mali’s capital, Bamako. Canadian Edith Blais and Italian Luca Tacchetto, who went missing while traveling through Burkina Faso, are said to be in good health and high spirits. The UN […]
The advent of coronavirus has pushed many administrations to ask their staff to work from home and asked citizens to seek services online. Moroccan courts said citizens can seek information or documents on its website, while the education ministry closed all classes and offered courses on the internet and through the national television. The central […]
Morocco, which banned all international flights over coronavirus fears, allowed exceptional flights to carry thousands of tourists stuck in different Moroccan airports. Commercial flights took off from Marrakech airport and are scheduled to continue taking mostly French tourists. French transport minister said there are 12,000 French nationals in Morocco and that some forty flights were […]
Morocco will set up a $1 billion (10 billion DH) special fund for the management of the Coronavirus pandemic. The Royal Office said in statement issued this Sunday that King Mohammed VI gave his high instructions to the government “to create immediately a special fund dedicated to the management of the Coronavirus pandemic.” “The earmarked […]
Morocco announced on Sunday 11 new confirmed coronavirus cases in the country and decided to suspend, until further notice, all international passenger flights to and from its territory. The new cases bring to 28 the number of COVID-19 infected persons recorded in Morocco since March 2, including Minister of Transport and Logistics Abdelkader Amara. One […]
Hundreds of European tourists, mostly French, massed in Marrakech airport demanding flights to go home after Morocco banned all flights with 30 countries. In Agadir, dozen French tourists staged a sit-in in front of their country’s consulate, asking for their repatriation. Morocco halted flights with France, in addition to Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, […]
Few hours after the Health Ministry announced Saturday nine new coronavirus cases, the Ministry of Transport issued a statement saying that the head of the department Abdelkader Amara has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. Abdelkader Amara, the first member of the Moroccan cabinet to test positive for the novel coronavirus, had paid a […]
Moroccan authorities have decided to suspend until further notice passenger flights with 21 more countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. The announcement was made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press release issued Saturday, March 14, the same day the Ministry of Health announced nine new cases of […]
The multiplicity of initiatives is not conducive to settle the Libyan crisis as it disperses efforts and wastes time, Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said. Libyans should come together around the SKhirate agreement, which paves the way for a transitory period and elections to end the crisis politically, Nasser Bourita said after talks with President […]