Moroccans stranded in southern Spain were faced with a difficult choice : returning to Morocco while leaving their vehicles behind, or staying without being able to benefit from financial aid and accommodation.
Morocco has reportedly summoned Algeria’s ambassador to Rabat, Adelhamid Abdaoui, who has been in office since September 2019, French-language newspaper Le360 reports. This took place on Tuesday, June 9, when the spokesperson of the Algerian Foreign Affairs Ministry Belaid Mohand Oussaid said that Morocco’s former consul in Oran left the country at the request of Algeria. The Algerian diplomat was summoned in a secretive fashion and no official press release has addressed the
Mauritania’s Foreign Affairs Minister had, Friday, a phone call with his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita, the Mauritanian news agency reports. During this call, Bourita informed Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed that following royal instructions a plane full of medical supplies will be sent to Mauritania. The aid is a way for Morocco to support the neighboring country in its fight against the coronavirus. The Mauritanian minister welcomed the support and discussed with his counterpart the
With a delay of a few weeks, Morocco and Spain are preparing to organize Operation Marhaba 2020. The countries have entered the phase of lifting the containment and resuming economic activities.
44 new confirmed coronavirus cases were recorded between Thursday afternoon and Friday morning in Morocco, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 8,581, the health Ministry announced. In a recent update, the Ministry reported that 373,776 suspected cases have tested negative for the virus so far. While deaths related to the coronavirus stand at 212, the number of Covid-19 patients who recovered in the Kingdom has reached 7,600. The confirmed
After Morocco’s Foreign Affairs Minister denied Algeria’s claims on the Moroccan consul, who was recalled by Rabat after a controversial video, Algiers said that it is committed to its version of the story. On Thursday, the Algerian Foreign Ministry insisted one more time that the Moroccan diplomat left at its request. «The government’s action to denounce the serious gaffe of the Moroccan Consul General in Oran and to call on the Moroccan side, in unequivocal terms, to
As of Thursday, June 11, 29 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 8,537. 10 of these new cases were recorded in Marrakech, 10 in Casablanca, 6 in Tangier and Larache, two in Fez and one in Kenitra. While deaths related to the coronavirus stand at 211, the number of Covid-19 patients who recovered in the Kingdom has reached 7,583. The confirmed coronavirus cases in the Kingdom are located as follows : 33.71%
After Egypt suggested a ceasefire as a peace plan for the Libyan crisis, Sabri Boukadoum went to Mauritania, while the head of Moroccan diplomacy Nasser Bourita was received on Wednesday by the Tunisian president.
The first group of Moroccans repatriated from Algeria were driven home, Monday, after the end of their quarantine, one of them told Yabiladi. After spending nine days in a five-star hotel in Saidia, the returnees were brought home via coaches and minibuses. «On Monday, we returned home after the local authorities organized transportation for us», one of the returnees said. «They started with those who live far from Saidia, like those from Ouerzazate, Agadir and Zagora and
Spanish police in Marbella arrested a 30-year-old Moroccan, who is the subject of a search and arrest warrant issued by Interpol at the request of Morocco. According to Diario Sur, the man is wanted by the kingdom which requests his extradition for crimes linked to drug trafficking. The Moroccan had also received a search order from the Marbella investigating court. The arrest took place when a local police plainclothes patrol saw a suspicious man with a nervous