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Over 1.78 million pupils received their first dose by Sept. 24 and 206,700 have been fully vaccinated with Pfizer and Sinopharm jabs which the government opted for to bolster collective immunity. The start of the school year was delayed until Oct. 1 until children aged 12-17 have been vaccinated as Morocco maintains leadership in Africa […]
Borders between Tunisia and Libya are to reopen this Friday Sept.17 after more than one month closure because of COVID-19 pandemic. The reopening decision came after the Tunisian and Libyan committees of security and health reviewed the situation and after ministerial delegations from the two countries agreed at a meeting in Djerba on security and […]
The general elections in Morocco, which for the first time bring together legislative, regional and local elections, will be held on the scheduled date, despite the constraints linked to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Moroccan voters will head to the polling stations this Wednesday Sept. 8 to cast their votes and elect those who will […]
Morocco is considering giving a third Covid-19 vaccine dose to vulnerable groups following the example of numerous advanced nations that took the same step to reinforce its collective immunity. Moroccan media, citing sources from the scientific committee, said that a third dose in sight for the elderly and people with underlying health conditions. The move […]
Morocco has already reached the global covid vaccination target set in May by the World Health Organization in order to protect 10 pc of the most vulnerable of each country’s population against coronavirus by the end of September. Morocco has administered at least 34,160,942 doses of COVID vaccines so far. The number of people […]
Sierra Leone has joined the growing list of countries that have opened consulates in the Moroccan Sahara, inaugurating this Monday a Consulate General in Dakhla and installing Ms. Zainab Candy as the country’s consul general. Ms. Candy was installed in her functions by the Ambassador of the Republic of Sierra Leone in Rabat, Mr. Atumanni […]
Morocco presses ahead with its vaccination campaign adding the 12-17 year-old age bracket as it moves steadily towards achieving herd immunity. The decision was announced after Morocco added Pfizer vaccine shipments to its inoculation campaign, dominated so far by Sinopharm followed by AstraZeneca and 300,000 doses of Johnson and Johnson vaccine. […]
Moroccan authorities have issued a stern warning to the scammers and holders of a fake health pass or false negative covid test certificate against the use of fraudulent health documents, saying this is a serious offense liable to criminal prosecution. A high-level meeting was held Tuesday at the ministry of the Interior to discuss measures […]
The government Council, held this Monday in Rabat, has decided to extend the state of health emergency across the national territory until Tuesday October 31, 2021, as part of efforts aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The state of health emergency, in force since March 2020 and that was scheduled to expire […]
The Kabylie provisional Govt. in exile and the movement for the self-determination in Kabylie filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against President Abdelmajid Tebboune and General Said Chengriha for committing genocide in Kabylie and for using Covid-19 and forest fires as tools to carry out “widespread ethnic cleansing”. The plaintiffs cite in […]