Head of Government Saadeddine El Othmani said Tuesday, during a monthly session at the parliament, that «Morocco will be the first African country to launch the anti-Covid-19 vaccination campaign». However, this statement is far from being true. Seychelles, a country in East Africa, officially started its anti-Covid-19 vaccination campaign, relying on the Sinopharm-developed vaccine, on January 10. «Some people have mentioned that a country in Africa (would have received the
«A Girl in a Blue Shirt» by Professor Gabriel Bensimhon, is the first Israeli novel to be translated into Arabic in Morocco. Accoridng to Jerusalem Post, the novel will also be sold soon in Moroccan bookstores. The novel, published by Yediot Books in 2013, tells the story of an immigrant from Morocco who fell in love with an Israeli-born girl who is in love with a Holocaust survivor. «I grew up in the town of Sefrou in Morocco until I immigrated to Israel at the age of 10.
The Polisario leadership is planning to lock down the Tindouf camps. «Access to the camps will no longer be authorized starting from tomorrow. The measure was decided during a meeting of the Front’s General Secretariat on January 11», Messoud Ramdane, president of the Sahrawi Association for the Defense of Human Rights, told Yabiladi on Tuesday. «The decision is motivated by the state of general alert that has been in force since November 13, 2020, in the
Morocco is «ready» to launch its vaccination operation against the coronavirus, the Head of Government said on Tuesday. During a Parliament session, he explained that the start of the long-awaited campaign is delayed by international «high demand».
1,246 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 461,390. 900 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 436,626. 34 deaths were recorded between yesterday and today, bringing the total number of deaths to 8,011. 13 of these deaths were recorded in the Casablanca-Settat region, 5 in the Oriental region, 3 in Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, 3
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At least 87 sub-Saharan migrants managed, on Tuesday morning around 7:30 am, to cross the border separating Morocco and Melilla. According to Civil Guard, cited by El Faro de Melilla, the total number of migrants who attempted to cross the border amount to 150 Sub-Saharan migrants. The same source reported that a migrant was taken to the hospital due to his injuries, while a member of the Civil Guard had minor injuries in his ankle. The government delegation also confirmed the incident,
Two United Nations peacekeepers, a Moroccan and a Gabonese, were killed after their convoy was ambushed by members of the UPC and anti-Balaka armed groups in southern Central African Republic (CAR), the UN Mission said on Monday. The attack took place some 17 kilometers from Bangassou, UN reported. «UN peacekeepers had retaken control of the city on Friday, after it captured two weeks earlier by anti-government armed groups», it explained. Mankeur Ndiaye, head of the UN
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez chaired, Monday, a new edition of the conference of Spanish ambassadors. During this meeting, he underlined the main lines of his cabinet’s diplomacy for 2021. On the Western Sahara question, Sanchez called for the resumption of the negotiation process with the objective of reaching a «just and lasting political solution» to the territorial dispute, Europa Press reported. The same position was voiced by Sanchez during his speech on
Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit held talks, Monday, with his Israeli counterpart Aryé Makhlouf Dery. «I spoke this morning with the Interior Minister of Morocco and we have decided to set up a team from the two departments to examine the introduction of foreign workers into the nursing industry and the examination of visa exemption», Dery wrote on Twitter. Aryé Makhlouf Dery said that during this phone call, he «recalled memories of [his] hometown»
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