While Algeria’s Foreign Affairs ministry has said that the Moroccan consul had left Oran at its request, Morocco rejects the claims, insisting that the diplomat was rather summoned by Rabat.
At least 300 Moroccans will head home, Wednesday, after they have been stranded in southern Spain for three months. Well-informed sources told Yabiladi that three flights will repatriate the stranded nationals, linking the Tetouan Saniat R’mel airport to that of Malaga-Costa del Sol. Morocco’s national carrier RAM will operate the three flights on 2:20 p.m., 4:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m. Stranded Moroccans, previously housed in hotels in Algeciras, confirmed to Yabiladi that
Morocco is planning to ease the strict lockdown measures it implemented in March to avoid the spread of the coronavirus. The measures take into consideration the disparities in the infection rate between regions, dividing the country into two different zones.
18 new confirmed coronavirus cases were recorded between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning in Morocco, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 8,455, the health Ministry announced. In a recent update, the Ministry reported that 343,785 suspected cases have tested negative for the virus so far. While deaths related to the coronavirus stand at 208, the number of Covid-19 patients who recovered in the Kingdom has reached 7,496. The confirmed
Morocco is extending the state of health emergency to July 10, the Council of Government announced after its earlier reunion on Tuesday. While the health emergency is to be maintained for one month, the lockdown will be gradually lifted throughout the country. The gradual lift will have to take into consideration the epidemiological situation of each region. The announcement comes as Head of Government Saadeddine El Othmani is expected to speak, Wednesday, at the parliament and give a
As of Tuesday, June 9, 135 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 8,437. These new cases were notably recorded in the Casablanca-Settat region (79 cases). 35 cases were recorded in the region of Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, 15 in Marrakech-Safi, 4 Fez-Meknes (4 cases) and 2 in Rabat-Salé-Kenitra. Between yesterday and today, two cases of death (210 in total) have been recorded in Marrakech and Tangier. 85
Moroccans stranded in Spain will be repatriated in the next 48 hours, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Nasser Bourita. The operation will be followed by many others, targeting Moroccans stranded in Turkey, France, Gulf countries and African countries.
On Tuesday, the inhabitants of Imi Agadir, a small village in southern Morocco, joined a rally to demand the arrest of a man suspected of raping a six-year-old girl.
Amnesty International denounced in a statement released, Tuesday, the thousands of arrests made during the state of health emergency in Morocco. The international NGO wrote that 91,623 arrests have been made since March 20. 558 of the arrestees are still detained for having violated the state of emergency, according to an official press release made public on May 22. «The Moroccan authorities must stop exploiting a flawed health emergency law to prosecute human rights activists,
A California man who claims to be a member of the Moroccan royal family was sentenced to 13 years and 11 months in prison, Monday, for defrauding business owners in the United States, local online newspaper Champion Newspaper reports. Known as Hassan Ra El, the 45-year-old man pleaded guilty to mail fraud and two counts of felony theft. He made businesses pay more than $10 million in advanced fees for loans. In addition to the sentence, the man is ordered by a federal judge in Atlanta to
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