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King Felipe VI of Spain and King Mohammed VI of Morocco held this Friday talks over the phone, during which they discussed the follow-up of the Coronavirus health crisis, announced the Spanish Royal Household Talks also covered international solidarity to cope with the pandemic, the Spanish Royal Household said in a tweet.
The EBRD, together with the European Union (EU), is stepping up efforts to support small and medium-sized enterprises managed and owned by businesswomen in Morocco, amidst the coronavirus pandemic, considering that women entrepreneurs are expected to be disproportionately affected by the crisis as their firms tend to be concentrated in certain sectors. The EBRD is […]
President of the Arab World Institute (IMA) Jack Lang has hailed the swift actions taken by King Mohammed VI to prevent the spread of Coronavirus pandemic. In a message addressed Wednesday to Mehdi Qotbi, president of the National Foundation of Museums of Morocco, Mr. Jack Lang said King Mohammed VI will be remembered forever in […]
The European Investment Bank Group (EIB) announced a financial support for the private sector in Morocco worth €440 million, notably through its credit lines with Moroccan financial institutions. The loan is intended to assist Morocco in addressing the impact of COVID-19 on the economy. “These credit lines dedicated to financing the private sector would be […]
The European Union Wednesday said it provided Algeria with €75 million to support the North African country in its struggle to tackle the growing number of patients of novel coronavirus disease, TSA reports. Oliver Varhelyi, the European Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, said he expressed in a phone call with the Algerian […]
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 […]
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 measures taken by the Moroccan government to counter the coronavirus outbreak have strengthened citizens’ trust in institutions, said a policy paper published by UK think Tank the Chatham House. Citing a recent study conducted by the Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis, the policy paper, signed by Mohamed Masbah and Anna Jacobs, showed that a […]
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 […]
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,” […]