Category: Headlines

Covid-19: Morocco MPs to discuss lockdown exit plan on June 11

June 4, 2020

Moroccan MPs will discuss on June 11 the government’s exit strategy from the ongoing covid-19 lockdown enforced in the country since March 20 to prevent ... Read More

Morocco’s hydrocarbons office to run Samir’s stockage platform

June 4, 2020

Morocco’s mining and hydrocarbons office ONHYM was tasked with overseeing the supply and the storing of oil after the Moroccan government’s request to rent the ... Read More

Covid-19: Morocco launches mass testing & early diagnosis campaign

June 3, 2020

Moroccan ministry of health has launched a massive Covid-19 testing campaign in all regions of Morocco, as part of the preparation for the lifting of ... Read More

African voices protest George Floyd’s murder in the USA

June 3, 2020

On the African continent, as elsewhere in the world, reactions are mounting after the death in the United States of a black man who was ... Read More

Polisario suffers new setback in Spain with Supreme Court banning display of its ensign in public

June 3, 2020

Spain’s justice system has inflicted a new blow to the Polisario separatist front by prohibiting the display of its pennant in public buildings. The Spanish ... Read More

France donates Tunisia €80m to tackle fallout from covid-19

June 3, 2020

France Monday offered Tunisia a €80 million check to help the North African country tackle the covid-19 pandemic which has infected 1,087 and killed 49 ... Read More

Morocco maintains army modernization plan

June 3, 2020

Lockheed Martin has confirmed the start of the production of fighter jets and attack helicopters ordered by Morocco in an army modernization push that also ... Read More

COVID-19: A 100% Morocco-developed diagnostic kit

June 3, 2020

The Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research (MAScIR), a Rabat-based research and development institution, has designed the first 100% Moroccan diagnostic kit for ... Read More

Morocco stops irrigation in water-stressed region

June 2, 2020

Morocco has stopped irrigating farmlands in Souss, one of the main agricultural regions, where dam storage rate dropped to 17%, agriculture minister said. Other regions ... Read More

Jihadist attack on a refugee camp in Niger kills three

June 2, 2020

Over 50 jihadists on motorbikes launched a "well-planned operation" against the Intikane refugee camp in the Tahoua region, in Western Niger, at some 72 km ... Read More