Two days after the US decision to temporarily suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Meir Ben Shabbat phoned Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita.
In the span of a year, Morocco has lost six places in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI). Transparency ranks the Kingdom 86th out of 179 countries in the «chronic corruption zone».
The Moroccan Foreign Ministry announced, Friday, that it signed an agreement with Burkina Faso to remove visa requirement for Burkinabe nationals. Travelers from Burkina Faso will be able to visit Morocco without having to ask for a visa, the Ministry announced. Given the current health crisis, travelers from Burkina Faso will have to submit a negative PCR test carried out in the last 72 hours to access Moroccan territory, the Ministry said on Twitter. ?En vertu de l'accord portant
Frontline workers in different parts of the country received their first doses of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine. The campaign was launched on Thursday, after King Mohammed VI received his first vaccine shot, launching the start of vaccination in Morocco.
Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum phoned his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, Thursday, and discussed the Western Sahara issue, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. This phone call is part of a campaign led by Algeria, after Morocco launched a military operation in the Sahara to secure the free flow of goods and people in the Guerguerate border crossing. The talks with Russia’s Foreign Minister were preceded by a meeting on January 25 in Addis Ababa between the
Moroccan actor Bachir Skirej passed away, Thursday, due to complications from his coronavirus infection. The deceased died in Orlando, Florida, where he was living with his wife. He was recovering at home when he contracted the coronavirus, before his health deteriorated and he was transferred to the hospital. Bachir Skirej, born in 1939 in Tangiers, the Moroccan actors worked in theater, cinema and television. One of his most famous works are Hajj Mokhtar Al-Souladi's Love, Lalla Hobi and
Starting from February 1, Moroccan travelers wishing to visit Spain will have to submit a negative PCR test upon arrival, the Spanish Embassy announced on Thursday. AVISO IMPORTANTEA partir del 01 hasta el 07 de febrero, pasajeros procedentes de ?? y que se dirijan a ?? DEBERÁN PRESENTAR PCR negativa a su llegada.La lista de países de riesgo se revisa cada 14 días según Recomendación del Consejo 2020/ 1475Lista en https://t.co/wglvYAceqH
«Western Sahara is not within the territorial scope of the UK-Morocco Association Agreement», said Minister of State for Middle East and North Africa James Cleverly, answering a question by Labor party politician Kim Johnson. «As is clear from the territorial application article of the Agreement, the UK-Morocco Association Agreement applies in the same way as the EU-Morocco agreements». James Cleverly «The UK is clear that the application of parts of the
The African Union (AU) has secured an additional 400 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, a health official said on Thursday, with the aim of vaccinating 60% of the continent's population over three years, according to Reuters. John Nkengasong, director of the AU’s disease control and prevention body, told an online briefing that in addition to the 270 million doses previously secured, the African Union will receive 400 million shots from the Serum Institute of India
As of January 25, 2021, the schedule of controls for vaccines against the new coronavirus, published by the World Health Organization (WHO), indicates that the UN institution has not yet approved the injectable formula developed by Sinopharm’s laboratories in Wuhan. This grid, accessible on the organization's platforms, details all of the vaccines under review. These include Covishield, developed by the Serum Institute of India under license from AstraZeneca/University of