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Morocco strives to improve its competitiveness in order to outperform India and China as the most attractive hub for automotive investments, Industry Minister Moulay Hafid El Alamy said. Morocco has offered propitious conditions for car manufacturers and part suppliers in key industrial clusters in Tangier, Casablanca and Kenitra. Building on its investments in low-carbon economy […]
Morocco has received lately 36 respirators and 98,000 facemasks donated by Chinese state-owned Development Bank (CDB). The donation comes after Bank of Africa (BOA) of Moroccan BMCE Group had sent four months ago medical supplies to China following the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei province. After the Chinese hospitals, doctors and health workers were overwhelmed […]
Morocco and China cooperate closely in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, said Morocco’s ambassador to China Aziz Mekouar. Speaking during a meeting broadcast on Tuesday by China-Arab TV channel, Mekouar said that videoconferences were organized regularly between doctors and health professionals in China and their counterparts in Morocco to share Chinese experience in […]
An airplane loaded with Chinese medical supplies landed in Morocco on Monday to help the North African country avert a coronavirus outbreak. RAM showed on its social media platforms the airplane, which came after talks between Morocco’s Foreign Minister and his Chinese counterpart. “China expresses its solidarity with the peoples and countries hit by the […]
Kenyan airport authorities have cleared 239 passengers who arrived at the capital’s main international airport on Wednesday. According to local media, all the passengers were screened on board and allowed to enter the country moments after the aircraft landed at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. China Southern Airlines had initially suspended travel reservations on […]
Egypt will start manufacturing electric buses as of November this year under an agreement with China’s Foton Motor. Under the agreement, Foton Motor, which designs and manufactures trucks and buses, will manufacture 2,000 buses over four years, 500 vehicles per year. Production can be increased to 5,000 buses. Minister of Military Production Mohamed […]
No coronavirus has been registered in Morocco since the outbreak of the pandemic in China’s Wuhan in December. All the Moroccans who were repatriated from the infected area in China left the hospital following a 20 day-quarantine all in good health. They were 167 Moroccans who had to stay in quarantine at hospitals in Meknes […]
The government of China has vowed to spare no effort to ensure the safety and protection of Moroccans living in China, especially in the city of Wuhan and Hubei province, said Sunday evening the Moroccan embassy in Beijing. The Chinese government will do “everything to ensure the safety, health and well-being of Moroccan nationals residing […]
No case of Coronavirus has been reported in Morocco wherein the risk to the public health remains low, said on Friday local news outlets citing the Health Department. However, there is no zero risk as the North African Kingdom welcomes annually between 150,000 and 190,000 Chinese tourists. This number is expected to rise as Morocco’s […]
The Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and services company Huawei is ready to cooperate with its Moroccan partners to launch the 5G network, Huawei vice-president for North-Africa, Philippe Wang, said Monday in Beijing. Philippe Wang who was talking to a Moroccan delegation on a visit to a Huawei service center in Beijing said his company was […]