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Following the disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic in agricultural production in Spain, Italy and Portugal, European shoppers are rushing to buy Moroccan fruits and vegetables, which have become hot commodities. Due to lack of farm workers in Spain, main supplier of the European market, demand has spiked in recent days for Moroccan agricultural products […]
The European Union will send €20 million in humanitarian aid to Iran which is subject to US sanctions and struggling with the Coronavirus pandemic. The announcement came from the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in a video news conference on Monday. “We’ve not been able to provide a lot of humanitarian help but there […]
Côte d’Ivoire-based Polish trailer maker Wielton Africa has launched a branch in Morocco as it seeks to conquer the African continent market. The company’s director Wielton Pietrzak said the branch named Wielton Pietrzak Succursale has been created in Morocco, with plans to launch an assembling plant, Le360.ma reports. Meantime, the branch will be used to […]
The European Commission on Tuesday put an end to the controversy that some Members of the European Parliament tried to fuel about compliance of the control of fruit and vegetables from the Moroccan Sahara with the EU marketing standards. In response to a question from a MEP on compliance control for products from the […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Morocco decided this Friday to suspend, until further notice, all air and sea connections with France over fears of the coronavirus pandemic, which continues to spread around the world and particularly in the European continent. The decision was discussed between King Mohammed VI and President Emmanuel Macron, as well as between the relevant governmental authorities […]
Morocco has suspended all flights from and to Spain as well as maritime passenger connections between the two countries as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to spread. Moroccan authorities also decided to suspend flights to and from Algeria until further notice, as a preventive measure against the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. […]
Moroccan university professor Fatima Roumate has been appointed by UNESCO member of the international experts group to draft global recommendations on the ethics of artificial intelligence. The 24-member international experts group is composed of the world’s leading experts on social, economic and cultural challenges of artificial intelligence. They are tasked with elaborating internationally applicable recommendations […]