Ahmed al-Mansur, the sixteenth century Moroccan sultan who died of the plague

He fled his beautiful palace in Marrakech and spent months in the countryside to avoid contagion. Saadi sultan Ahmed al-Mansur ended up dying of the plague despite the preventive measures he had taken.

Moroccans and their first experience of quarantine during an epidemic

On Friday, Morocco declared a state of heath emergency to deal with the spread of coronavirus. The decsion is not the first of its kind as in the 18th and 19th centuries, the plague forced the Kingdom to impose a nationwide quarantine.

History : When a foreign merchant described the atrocities of the 1799 plague in Mogador

In his 1820 account, a foreign merchant in Mogador described the fear, calamities and deaths that accompanied the 1799 plague. James G. Jackson's detailed letteres addressed the rise, progress and decrease of the epidemy that killed thousands of people in Morocco.

Morocco sends medical aid to Madagascar