At least four people were wounded when an explosive device hit an international ceremony during the commemoration of the end of World War I, held on Wednesday, at a cemetery in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, the French Foreign Ministry announced. According to LCI, foreign diplomats attended the annual commemoration, held at a non-Muslim cemetery. On the spot, an AFP photographer said Saudi police closed roads leading to the cemetery, while the injured are still being identified. Wishing
Unlike in previous polls, more than a million Muslims took part in the presidential election on November 3 in the United States. 69% of Muslim voters voted for Joe Biden.
US Senator James Inhofe addressed, Tuesday, the Western Sahara issue in the upper house of the US Congress, defending the Polisario Front’s positions. «Last week, while most of the world was focused on our election and the pending results, a very significant action was taking place halfway around the world in Western Sahara», he said. He accused Morocco of having chosen this time on purpose «to threaten to push back on protests by Western Saharans on their own
Spanish police recently arrested four Moroccan citizens for kidnapping two 25-year-old people in Alicante and demanding a ransom. Those arrested are also said to have threatened the relatives of their hostages. Those arrested are aged between 25 and 35 years old. They will be prosecuted for kidnapping and belonging to a criminal organization. Police said the incident dates back to the end of September, when the victims were beaten and forcibly driven in a vehicle on the
Around the world, tens of vaccines against Covid-19 have already reached the final trial stages. Morocco, which wants to start a vaccination campaign in a few weeks, will have a wide choice.
5,214 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 265,165. 3,946 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 216,851. 69 deaths were recorded between yesterday and today, bringing the total number of deaths to 4,425. 14 of these deaths were recorded in the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region, 13 in the Oriental, 12 in Casablanca-Settat, 8
Administered to more than 100,000 people in China, vaccines developed by public entity Sinopharm against Covid-19 are in their final stages of testing. Morocco, which is participating to the process, will launch an expanded vaccination campaign in the coming weeks.
Emmerson Plc to start building a $400 million Moroccan potash plant by the end of 2021, the company’s CEO Graham Clarke told Reuters. Production in the Morocco plant is expected to start by 2023. The plant will be Africa’s largest potash project and is expected to be among the world’s lowest capital cost potash projects, the same source added. «With the low capital cost and high margins the company will generate, the payback period is three-five years depending on
On Monday, Morocco announced that it would launch a massive Covid-19 vaccination campaign in the coming weeks. This comes as Pfizer and BioNTech laboratories said that their vaccine has been found to be more than 90% effective. What is vaccine efficacy and how does it act on disease and infection ?
More than 1,600 migrants were rescued at sea or reached the Canary Islands over the weekend via the Atlantic route, emergency services told the Associated Press on Sunday. Rescuers near the island of El Hierro recovered the body of one person who died while trying to reach the Spanish archipelago. Another migrant was airlifted by a helicopter to a hospital, the same source added. Reaching the Canary Islands via Morocco has become an important route in 2020 for migrants. Since the beginning of
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