The man behind North Africa’s first Holocaust Memorial said that he had received a letter from the authorities, ordering him to leave the country and to put an end to his NGO’s activities. Speaking to Yabiladi, Oliver Bienkowski said that he is planning to bring the case to court, resisting his expulsion.
Health authorities announced, Wednesday, Morocco’s sixth coronavirus case. The patient is a French-Senegalese woman who came from France on March 6 and landed in the city of Fes. After she showed respiratory symptoms, the 64-year-old woman, who suffers from chronical diseases, went for a check out on March 7. The woman tested positive for the virus and was admitted to a hospital by the sanitary authorities, the Ministry said in a press release. Earlier on Wednesday, two confirmed
Two Moroccan women in Italy were arrested, Tuesday, by the police while they were driving to another city to grab coffee. When approached by the police, they said that «they left Villa Verucchio (province of Rimini) to go to the beach and drink coffee», Rimini Today wrote. The two women, aged 39 and 43, were then arrested for breaking coronavirus quarantine. For the record, Italy, which is considered as the epicenter of the virus in Europe, has implemented emergency
Royal Air Maroc (RAM), Morocco’s national carrier, inaugurated, Wednesday, a new national route, linking Laayoune to Rabat with two weekly flights. The two flights will be operated every Monday and Wednesday, wrote MAP, quoting RAM. In addition to the new route, the airline company has reinforced its Laayoune-Marrakech line, adding a new flight for every Sunday. To RAM’s CEO Hamid Addou, strengthening air connections with the southern provinces will «undeniably» boost
Human rights activists have criticized the recent report issued by the National Council for Human Rights on Hirak protests and torture allegations. Moroccan NGOs believe that the report tried to «justify human rights violations».
The United Arab Emirates announced, Tuesday, that the Moroccan national who tested positive for coronavirus in the country has recovered, Khaleej Times reports. According to the UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention, this brings the number of patients who have recovered in the country to 17. The list includes a Moroccan national, an Egyptian one and three Emiratis. The UAE’s announcement comes after the country announced 15 new coronavirus cases, which brought the number of people
Morocco’s economic growth is expected to fall to 2% in 2020 because of drought and the spread of the novel coronavirus, Reuters wrote Tuesday. After it was forecasted that the country’s economic growth will stand at 3.5%, it was noticed that the agricultural and tourism sectors will be affected by the lack of rainfall and the outbreak, Morocco’s planning agency told the British press agency. «Growth this year will witness the steepest drop in 20
Two confirmed coronavirus cases have been recorded in Morocco, bringing the number of those infected by the virus to four; the Health Ministry said in a press release issued Wednesday. According to the health authorities, the new patients are the wife and daughter of the French tourist, who tested positive earlier this week for the virus. The health authorities quarantined the two patients two days before they underwent the tests that confirmed their infection. These two new infections
After Italy has implemented emergency coronavirus measures to the entire country, imposing travel restrictions, several Italian tourists have seen their flights from Morocco to Italy canceled. Speaking to Italian daily newspaper Corriere Della Serra, a group of Italian tourists in Agadir said that they are blocked in the North African Kingdom and could not return to Italy Monday as scheduled before. «We left for Agadir in Morocco on March 2 (…) We had to go back on
The French tourist who tested positive for coronavirus in Morocco is a 52-year-old Paris-based man, a Health Ministry official said in a press conference today. While recording the first death linked to the virus, Morocco reassures the public on the two remaining cases.
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