According to the Foreign Exchange Office, remittances sent by Moroccans living abroad rose by 2.2% from January to the end of September 2020, thus resuming the upward trend after having suffered a sharp decline during the period of sanitary confinement. However, according to the World Bank’s projections, remittances to the Kingdom are expected to drop by 5% during the current year.
Morocco recorded the highest number of daily infections and deaths, with 5,745 cases and 82 passings. In the Casablanca region only 2,478 cases were recorded in the past 24 hours.
The opening of diplomatic representations in the Sahara has weakened the argument of the Polisario and Algeria, which claim that no country recognizers Morocco’s sovereignty over the territory.
Meteorites, found in Morocco in 2011 and 2012, have showed evidence of water on Mars 4.4 billion years ago. They showed signs of oxidation which could have occurred as water formed, according to scientists.