The US chargé d’Affaires David Greene congratulated King Mohammed VI on the launch of the anti-Covid-19 vaccination campaign in a letter sent on Monday. «It is with the highest respect that I extend my warm congratulations on the launch of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccination campaign, the first major country-wide campaign in Africa», the diplomat wrote. بعث القائم بالأعمال الأمريكي ديفيد غرين اليوم رسالة إلى جلالة
After Tunisia in 2017 and Morocco in 2020, famous raï music singer Reda Taliani was arrested on January 20, in a state of intoxication and in possession of drugs in a bar-restaurant in Dubai, UAE, well-informed sources told Yabiladi. The Emirati police intervened following a violent altercation involving the native of El Biar, in Algiers. Reda Taliani left Morocco for a stay in the United Arab Emirates at the end of December 2020. He was expected to shoot a music video and perform
281 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 471,438. 200,081 people have received the vaccine against Covid-19. 892 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 450,052. 12 deaths were recorded between yesterday and today, bringing the total number of deaths to 8,287. 6 of these deaths were recorded in the Casablanca-Settat region,
A painting by former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill of Moroccan landscape Koutoubia is being sold by Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, Associated Press reported. The painting, which was a gift from Churchill to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt is being sold by Angelina Jolie next month with an estimated price of 1.5 million pounds to 2.5 million pounds ($2.1 million to $3.4 million). The painting shows the mosque at sunset and was completed during the 1939-45
Last year and despite the pandemic, lobbying activities in the United States by foreign countries continued. While Morocco spent almost the same amount as the previous years, those of Algeria and the Polisario Front dropped drastically.
The closure of Melilla and Ceuta’s borders with Morocco has been extended until February 28, Spain said on Friday. This closure of the Spanish side joins the one that Morocco has maintained since March 13, 2020, due to the coronavirus crisis, El Estrecho Digital wrote on Saturday. According to the government delegation in Melilla, chaired by Sabrina Moh, the decision was «implemented at midnight, February 1, 2021», according to the «recommendations of the European
About 70 Chareidi Israelis are stranded in Morocco following the closure of the Ben-Gurion Airport last week, the Yeshiva World News reported. These Israelis traveled to Morocco to celebrate the Hiloula of Jewish saint Rabb Its’Hak Abe’hssira, a shrine located near Errachidia. They «had no inkling prior to their flight» and «planned on returning to Israel on Thursday or at the very latest on Saturday», the same source added. The group was forced to find
Russia’s ambassador to Algeria Igor Beliaev addressed, Saturday, the Western Sahara issue, accusing «countries», without naming them, of blocking the appointment of a special envoy to Western Sahara. «We do not understand the reasons behind the delay in appointing an envoy to Western Sahara», he told Algerian newspaper Ennahar. The Polisario Front explicitly accuses France, a permanent member of the Security Council, of opposing the appointment of a
Former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and the former assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations Avi Berkowitz were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Sunday, for their role in brokering four normalization deals between Israel and Arab nations, Reuters reported. Kushner and Berkowitz owe their nomination to American attorney Alan Dershowitz, who was eligible to do so in his capacity as a professor emeritus of Harvard Law School. Kushner,
Former journalist for satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, French-Moroccan Zineb El Rhazoui are among those nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The journalist and writer has stirred controversy in the recent years for her comments against Islam and Islamism. In November 2019, she said on CNews channel that «the police must shoot real bullets» on young people from working-class neighborhoods. Zineb El Rhazoui was also nominated, along with the American Committee to Protect