448 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 480,504. 2,357,283 people have received the vaccine against Covid-19, while 4,867 received their second shot. 835 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 463,271. 16 deaths were recorded between yesterday and today, bringing the total number of deaths to 8,540. 5 of these deaths were recorded
The Western Sahara intergroup within the European Parliament is preparing, Friday, to elect Austrian MEP Andreas Schieder, current leader of the group of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ), as chairman of the body, the spokesperson for the delegation of this party announced in a press release. «The conflict in Western Sahara has lasted for more than 40 years and the Sahrawi population has lived just as long under Moroccan occupation and in intolerable humanitarian conditions»,
Widely relayed by Algerian and Polisario media, reports on the closing of consulates in Laayoune opened last year, were denied by Zambia and Burundi.
After the announcement of the closure of its consulate in Laayoune, which was quickly withdrawn, Burundi finally obtained the opening of a Moroccan embassy in Bujumbura in exchange.
In a speech he delivered, Thursday, Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune did not forget to defend the Polisario’s interests. «There is no solution to the Saharawi question apart from self-determination», he said, adding that the Sahara issue is a decolonization matter. The President’s words did not change much compared to his position during his electoral campaign of December 2019. «To Algeria and all the Algerian people with its institutions and its army, the
The first official meeting between members of the Moroccan parliament and a member of the Israeli Knesset has finally taken place. On Thursday, MK Ram Ben-Barak of the Yesh Atid Party spoke in an online video call with two members of the Moroccan House of Councilors, Mohamed Al Bakhouri and Abdelkarim Al Hams, Jerusalem Port reported. This meeting is the first of its kind since Morocco and Israeli signed a normalization agreement in December, 2020. Members of the Moroccan delegation proposed
477 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 480,056. 2,233,123 people have received the vaccine against Covid-19. 970 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 462,436. 7 deaths were recorded between yesterday and today, bringing the total number of deaths to 8,524. 4 of these deaths were recorded in Casablanca-Settat, 2 in the
A court in Zagora has acquitted a couple living in cohabitation from adultery, in an unprecedented ruling. According to EFE, the man was denounced by his first wife for violence and adultery for having lived with another woman, a crime punishable by two years in prison. The first wife thus filed a complaint against her husband, accusing him of having assaulted her and expelling her from the marital home with her children. During the investigation, the husband, who was on bail, denied the
In a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Joe Biden agreed to promote peace agreements between Israel and states in the region, including Morocco.
The Algerian authorities announced this week that they had given the green light to their consulate in Oujda, Morocco, to repatriate the remains of a young Algerian who died in January. According to the newspaper Echorouk, the land border between Morocco and Algeria, closed since August 1994, will be exclusively reopened to repatriate the remains of the 23-year-old deceased. One of Emad Bourqba's family members told the newspaper that the consulate informed them of the decision,