In an interview with Russia Today, the Algerian Foreign Minister assured that his country would not offend Morocco, adding that Algiers demands respect and will not change its positions known to Rabat.
Ittihad Tanger announced, Wednesday, that four new members of its team have tested positive for the coronavirus. In a Facebook post, the football club said it had received the results of a second wave of tests. The results showed that four of the players are infected with the coronavirus. Three members of the staff responsible for luggage as well as a player from the first team have already tested positive for Covid-19 during a screening operation carried out by the football club
Farmers, for whom cattle breeding is a major source of income, have denounced the drop in the prices of cattle, sheep and goats for Eid Al Adha, due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the rainfall deficit.
The Wali of the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, Mohamed Mhidia, informed companies operating in the industrial areas of Tangier about the ban on leaving the city during Eid Al Adha. «He formally prohibited these companies from issuing travel authorizations for empoyees during said period (the heads of companies are responsible for respecting this ban)», the president of the industrial area of Tangier Ammar Chammaa reported in a press release. Following a meeting
Morocco’s high-speed train Al-Boraq crushed a man, Wednesday, between Skhirat and Temara, a small city near the capital. According to the national railway operator ONCF, the tragedy occurred around 7:34 pm. According to a statement by ONCF, the deceased «threw himself under the train». «ONCF regrets this sad accident and apologizes to its kind customers for the inconvenience that the accident must have caused», the statement concluded. On Saturday, another
Omega Textile Maroc, a Chinese-owned clothing manufacturer, is building a sock, hosiery and lingerie facility in Morocco. The company has invested MAD80m (US$8.47) to build the high tech plant in Casablanca. The plant will be manufacturing garments for local and international export, wrote apparel, garment and textile industry online newspaper Just-Style. Omega’s Casablanca facility is expected to create 200 direct jobs, and 450 indirect ones, the same source revealed, adding that it
Maghreb Association Sportive de Fez, an Omnisport club based in Fez, announced on Wednesday that six of its players have tested positive for the coronavirus. In a Facebook post, the football team reported that the results of second screening tests confirmed the infections. The people who tested positive for the virus include players and members of the technical and medical team. Three footballers, two members of the technical staff as well as a manager have tested positive for the novel
220 new coronavirus cases were recorded during the past 24 hours in Morocco, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 17,962. 247 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 15,636, with a recovery rate to 87,1%. Five deaths were recorded, bringing the death toll to 285. The number of active cases in Morocco is 2,041. Most of the new cases were recorded in the Casablanca-Settat region, with 66 cases : 61 in
Even after the Moroccan government had stressed that the conclusions reached by Numbeo «lack rigor, credibility and scientific methodology», Moroccan media continue to relay its rankings, mostly based on a few hundred internet users on social media.
The King's prosecutor at the court of first instance in Souk El Arbaa decided on Wednesday to prosecute some of the persons in charge of the management of the red fruit production units in Lalla Mimouna, following the appearance of a coronavirus hotspot in June. In a press release sent to Yabiladi, the prosecutor explains that this decision is made on the basis of the results of a judicial inquiry ordered by the prosecution to investigate the circumstances and the causes of the appearance of