58 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 513,922. 5,726,928 people have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine so far, while 4,404,867 people have received the second. 232 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 501,146. 5 deaths were recorded between yesterday and today, bringing the total number of deaths to 9,077. 2 of these
The Polisario Front is organizing a webinar this week to discuss «human rights violations in Western Sahara». An event set up by the Intergroup for Western Sahara at the European Parliament. A press release from the Parliamentary Intergroup, relayed by the Algerian agency APS and the Polisario press agency, explains that the latter «will look into the violations of human rights in Western Sahara committed by Morocco». This meeting is
Proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly at the initiative of Morocco, the International Day of Argania is celebrated for the first time on May 10, 2021.
A sit-in to support the Palestinian people will be observed, Monday in Rabat, in front of the parliament, the Moroccan Front in Support of Palestine and Against Normalization reported. In a statement, the Front said that «the Zionist enemy continues its criminal acts against the Palestinian people, particularly those living in Al Quds, where the occupation army and the settlers carry out large-scale ethnic cleansing operations, in particular in the neighborhood of Sheikh
The families of journalists Omar Radi and Soulaiman Raissouni observed a sit-in on Monday in front of the Oukacha prison in Casablanca to call for their lives to be saved. «We regret, as families of journalists and political detainees (...) that arbitrary detention continues against the law and for many months», they said in a statement. The families recall that the two journalists «tasted the bitterness of the violation of their rights and the persistence of systematic
The Polisario’s representative in Europe rejected the recent declaration of Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, who accused Iran of providing militarily support to the movement of Brahim Ghali. «It is a lie and without foundation», underlined Oubi Bouchraya El Bachir, in a press release published on Sunday, May 9th. He reiterated, on this occasion, the Front's refusal of the «allegations» of the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, asking the latter to
The Indian variant of the new coronavirus is said to be not only more contagious, but also more resistant to vaccines. Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO), Soumya Swaminathan warned on Saturday that the B.1.617 variant «as some mutations which increase transmission, and which also potentially could make (it) resistant to antibodies that are generated by vaccination or by natural infection». Speaking to AFP, she explains that the variant is a contributing
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has ordered the «immediate termination» of all agreements between Moroccan companies and public and private groups in Algeria. His orders target in particular the Algerian Insurance and Reinsurance Company and the National Insurance Company. The telephone and internet company, Djezzy, 51% owned by the Algerian state, is also ordered to end these contracts with «companies close to the enemies of Algeria». Mesure
This Sunday morning, two Royal Air Maroc (RAM) planes took off from Mohammed V airport in Casablanca bound for China, to deliver batches of the vaccine against coronavirus, developed by Sinopharm. These will be the third and fourth shipments of the kind this weekend, as two other planes were freighted on Saturday to carry batches of the same vaccine. Indeed, yesterday morning, two RAM planes left for China, to carry 500,000 injections acquired in April 30. These deliveries are part of the 10
236 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 513,864. 5,473,809 people have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine so far, while 4,390,752 people have received the second. 374 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 500,914. 8 deaths were recorded between yesterday and today, bringing the total number of deaths to 9,072. 3 of these