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
3,508 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 359,844. 4,902 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 305,291. 69 deaths were recorded between yesterday and today, bringing the total number of deaths to 5,915. 13 of these deaths were recorded in the Casablanca-Settat region, 11 in Souss-Massa, 7 in Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, 7 in
While the Mauritanian people welcomed the reopening of the Guerguerate border crossing and flow of goods and people, several Algerian and Polisario media have relayed in unison the analysis of a Mauritanian political scientist ensuring that Mauritania would have been angered by Morocco’s military intervention.
Until September 30, 2020, Spain increased imports of cucumbers from Morocco by 32.08% and imports of tomatoes by 28.97% compared to the same period of the previous year. According to data obtained by Hortoinfo via the statistical service of Estacom (ICEX-Tax Agency), the total number of fruits and vegetables purchased by Spain in Morocco increased in 2020 by 18.73% compared to the previous year, between January and September, increasing from 361,000 tons imported from the Kingdom of
In a new study, researchers from Oxford University developed a new scanning technique that identified damage to the lungs of Covid-19 patients, months after infections. The damage is believed to be linked to «long Covid».
The Moroccan woman who left her 17-month-old baby for a month at her home in Malaga, was sentenced, Monday, November 30, to 16 years in prison. According to the Spanish newspaper Diario Sur, the jury found her guilty of the crime of murder and another of temporary abandonment of a minor. The prosecution had demanded a sentence of one year in prison for the crime of abandonment and 20 years for murder. In mid-November, the Malaga court began the trial of this Moroccan
In its Monday issue, Arabic-language newspaper Al Ahdath Al Maghribia announced that the Royal Armed Forces will be receiving, in early 2021, a Gulfstream G-550 aircraft equipped with spy technologies that are capable of blinding enemy defenses. The Kingdom concluded, on January 31, 2019, an agreement with manufacturer Raytheon for the acquisition of four devices of this type. The Gulfstream G-550 business jet is equipped with an Israeli-American made intelligence, surveillance and