Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit held talks, Monday, with his Israeli counterpart Aryé Makhlouf Dery. «I spoke this morning with the Interior Minister of Morocco and we have decided to set up a team from the two departments to examine the introduction of foreign workers into the nursing industry and the examination of visa exemption», Dery wrote on Twitter. Aryé Makhlouf Dery said that during this phone call, he «recalled memories of [his] hometown»
Since the start of Sinopharm clinical trials in Morocco, health authorities have been giving ever-changing deadlines regarding the start of the vaccination campaign. Today, Morocco has not yet received vaccine doses while it postponed several times the start of said campaign.
Morocco’s health authorities announced on Monday evening that they had recorded the first confirmed case of the coronavirus strain recently discovered in the United Kingdom. A statement from the Ministry of Health, sent to Yabiladi, indicates that the case was detected at the port of Tanger Med, when a Moroccan coming from Ireland, arrived by boat via the port of Marseille. The ministry reports that the patient, who is asymptomatic, is currently in medical isolation in
473 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 460,144. 761 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 435,686. 35 deaths were recorded between yesterday and today, bringing the total number of deaths to 7,977. 8 of these deaths were recorded in the region of Casablanca-Settat, 5 in Souss-Massa, 6 in Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, 1 in
Morocco has joined the African Development Bank’s Bloomberg African Bond Indices (ABABI), the multilateral development finance institution announced Monday in a press release sent to Yabiladi. ABABi, administered by the African Development Bank, is «family of African bond indices launched in February 2015 and calculated by the independent, global index provider Bloomberg», the statement explains. ABABI includes other countries, including Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa,
A man, who suffers from a mental disorder, killed a five-year-old child, Sunday, in a village near the town of Boudhnib, near the city of Errachidia. Several media sources reported that the alleged killer, originally from the city of Oujda, is on psychotropic drugs. He allegedly approached a group of children who were playing football. With a big knife, he allegedly threatened to slaughter them. They were all able to escape, except the victim. The alleged killer would have slaughtered the
Casablanca mayor Abdelaziz El Omari has submitted his resignation as a member of the Justice and the Development party’s general secretariat to protest against Morocco’s normalization of ties with Israel, a well-informed source within the Islamist party told Yabiladi on Monday. «El Omari submitted his resignation to protest against the normalization agreement, but it has not been accepted yet», the same source explained. «The right thing to do now is
The phone call that King Mohammed VI and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had in December continues to make headlines in Israel. Israeli newspaper Maariv revealed, Sunday, that the King of Morocco «would have set an important condition prior to visiting Israel». King Mohammed VI would have «demanded the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations», said the newspaper close to the Israeli army and which quotes French sources. The sovereign is also
Two months ago, Morocco’s Royal Armed Forces launched an operation in Guerguerate to free the border crossing. No international body, including the Security Council or the African Union, has condemned it. The situation on the ground is calm and the process of opening consulates is continuing.
India’s Serum Institute of India, which was approached by Morocco for the Covid-19 AstraZeneca vaccine, will dispatch its first overseas consignment of 20 lakh does of said vaccine to Brazil by the end of January, chief executive officer (CEO) Adar Poonawalla said on Friday. The announcement comes after it has been said that Morocco will receive the vaccine doses this week, with the objective of launching the long-awaited vaccination campaign in the country during the same