514 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 493,867. 4,293,544 people have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine so far, while 3,231,742 people have received the second. 523 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 481,597. 5 deaths were recorded in Morocco in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19-related deaths
The delegate of the Spanish government in Ceuta, Salvadora Mateus, announced that the process of repatriating Moroccans stranded in the city will take place before the beginning of Ramadan. She added that a list of 200 people who want to return to Morocco has been identified, after they were stranded in Ceuta, due to the closure of borders. Since the borders were closed, several repatriation operations were jointly organized by the Moroccan and Spanish authorities, repatriating 653 Moroccans.
In Spain, radicalization in prisons is an issue that preoccupies the Iberian authorities and fuels public debates. Morocco is concerned since Madrid expels, each year, to the Kingdom a few thousand undocumented migrants, including former detainees for common law offenses.
In a recent note, American rating agency Fitch Ratings has given BMCI Treso Plus and InstiObligations Etat International Fund Credit Quality Ratings and Market Risk Sensitivity Ratings of 'BB+f'/'S2' and 'BB+f'/'S4' respectively. BMCI Asset Management (BMCI AM) manages the two funds, Fitch Ratings wrote. The International Fund Credit Quality Ratings «are driven by the funds' primary focus on Moroccan government securities and reverse repurchase agreement backed by such securities»,
After months of closure, the beaches of Agadir will reopen for visitors, starting from Monday. According to 2M.ma, the authorities in the city of Agadir will announce in the coming days a series of new measures, including the reopening of beaches. The decision will include, neighboring beaches stretching from Tamri to Imsouan. Visitors will be allowed to be on the beach until 6pm. For the record, the beaches of the city were closed after the end of the summer. They were again reopened in
OCP, a major economic player in the Moroccan economy, is also becoming a strategic pillar for the Kingdom's diplomacy. It is the case for the rapprochement with Nigeria and the praising messages of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Biden administration will keep a Trump policy that boosted armed drone exports, Reuters reported. Morocco is one of the countries that will benefit from this policy. «Keeping the policy holds the door open for hundreds of millions and eventually billions of dollars in U.S. sales to governments in Taiwan, India, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates that in the past have been prohibited from buying them», the same source added. «Members of Congress are holding up the sale
After meeting the Mauritanian President on Wednesday, Polisario envoy Bachir Mustapha Sayed addressed the Front’s withdrawal from the 1991 ceasefire when speaking to Mauritanian media. «We are at war even if Morocco does not recognize it. For now, these are just warm-ups as sportsmen say. The war is only in its first phase», he said. Sayed welcomed «Morocco's losses [which] are real», without giving further details. Since the operation led by the
511 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 493,353. 4,289,281 people have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine so far, while 3,071,117 people have received the second. 467 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 481,074. 2 deaths were recorded in Morocco in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19-related
A Casablanca court sentenced, Thursday, Moroccan-American YouTuber Chafik Omerani, a.k.a «3robi F Merican» to 3 months in prison as well as a fine of 40,000 dirhams, his brother Mohamed Omerani said on Facebook. The YouTubeur was arrested in February at the Rabat-Salé airport by Moroccan police. He came the Kingdom from the United States where he lives, after a stopover in Brussels, Belgium. The King's prosecutor at the Casablanca criminal court of first