After the censorship of Yabiladi in September, then other Moroccan news sites, Algerian media said on Wednesday that they are not accessible from Algeria, denouncing an attack on freedom of the press.
Algeria does not seem to appreciate the succession of Cyril Ramaphosa by Félix Antoine Tshisekedi, as president of the African Union. It wants to deactivate the troika on Western Sahara in favor of the AU Peace and Security Council.
To manage the after aftershocks of the health crisis, Morocco has to renew a credit line with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the head of the parliamentary finance committee told Bloomberg. Abdellah Bouanou said that the government and Finance ministry are «well aware of the need to renew» the agreement with IMF, insinuating that the parliament is likely to support the move. «A deal could help address the aftershocks of the pandemic, especially when there is no
Morocco is preparing to turn the page on Cyril Ramaphosa’s rotating presidency of the African Union. It is the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Félix Antoine Tshisekedi, who will replace the South African president at the next ordinary AU summit, scheduled for early 2021 in Addis Ababa. A position that will allow him to lead the African troika in charge of the Western Sahara question. On Tuesday, King Mohammed VI sent a letter to Félix Antoine
4,346 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 364,190. 4,044 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 314,237. 70 deaths were recorded between yesterday and today, bringing the total number of deaths to 5,985. 11 of these deaths were recorded in the Casablanca-Settat region, 11 in Souss-Massa, 10 in Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, 9 in
A few days before the launch of the vaccination campaign against the new coronavirus in Morocco, the operations to identify priority people are in their final stages. Depending on the region, health facilities are expected to welcome hundreds of people per day.
Larbi Babmar, nicknamed «Larbi Mirikan», accompanied by his friend, had started an unprecedented adventure. In the 1980s, the two adventurers had decided to go to the United States, using a fishing boat.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom, has granted emergency authorization to the vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech. According to The Economist, the vaccine is the first fully-tested covid-19 one that has been authorized for use in Britain, after trials have shown that it has an efficacy of 95%. Ugur Sahin, head of BioNTech, said the move would reduce hospitalization for people in
Deputy Minister for Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture Taras Kachka said, Tuesday, that his country's government wants to initiate negotiations to seal free trade agreements (FTA) with several countries, including Morocco, China and Great Britain. Quoted by media, Kachka said that Ukrainian officials will start these negotiations not only with Morocco, but also with most of the countries of North Africa. «This December, we plan to formalize this in official statements or
The former Tunisian president, Moncef Marzouki, slammed Algeria in one of his recent statements. Speaking directly to the inhabitants of the Tindouf camps, Marzouki described them as «hostages of a bad choice of the Algerian regime». «They have no future within this Algerian context that speaks of a war of liberation against the Moroccan occupation, evoking a Sahrawi state», he said in an intervention presented during his participation in a conference on