There may be irony in Morocco now reconsidering and revamping its development model, which is its national guiding frameworks for social and environmental fulfilment. I have long been and remain a believer in Morocco’s existing structures for people’s development. There is…
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MADRID—In late March, about 100 Moroccan migrants living in Spain paid smugglers 5,400 euros each—roughly $6,100—to make the treacherous journey home in inflatable rafts. In a curious case of reverse migration, they desperately fled a wealthy country that had been crippled by the coronavirus and could not offer them work for the foreseeable future. Yet when they finally reached the beaches of Larache, on Morocco’s western coast, they were hunted by the Moroccan authorities, who were concerned that the migrants would spread the coronavirus. Police conducted a door-to-door search, and at least one migrant was found hiding in a clay oven to avoid detection, according to a report in the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
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Tags : Morocco, coronavirus, covid 19,
Morocco has launched its new agricultural development strategy, ‘Génération Green 2020-2030’, with which it plans to improve the country’s Gross Domestic Product and double exports in the next ten years, completing the Green Morocco Plan. In the official presentation…
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The relationship between Gulf countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, and their long-term partner the Moroccan monarchy has undergone notable changes in recent years. Diminishing oil revenues, a Saudi leadership that is more hard-nosed in how it spends its money, and shifts in Morocco’s foreign policy strategy have all played a role. The result is a relationship increasingly grounded in pragmatism as opposed to what was once an ideologically based, mutually supportive relationship.
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The war over Western Sahara might be the world’s least-known long-term conflict. For more than four decades, an ethnic Sahrawi state-in-exile has been struggling, without success, for international recognition while waging a daily battle for survival in a featureless desert subject to subzero winters and summers so hot and still that cigarette smoke seems to congeal…
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An analytical paper prepared by the Studies Department at Sumoud site affirmed that the new Russian position on the Western Sahara issue represented a strong blow to France, which for decades has been controlling the course of the Western Sahara…
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With nearly 6,500 cases reported as of May 13, Morocco is the third African country most affected by Covid-19. Considered a model of Covid-19 crisis management, especially by its neighbours, Morocco has not spared any resources in dealing with the crisis, especially financial ones…
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The country was one of the first in the MENA region to implement strict lockdown measures: schools were closed on March 13 and a state of emergency declared on March 19, later extended until June 10. An extensive programme of measures…
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Morocco reacted decisively to the threat of Covid-19 pandemic, declared a state of emergency, and imposed a strict one-month curfew on 20 March and extended it until 20 May 2020. The Moroccan authorities implemented several measures to control the spread of the virus, while the monarchy launched an image repair campaign to solidify popular trust of the Palace. Still, the number of infections escalated to 7023, and the death toll reached 193, while 3901 recovered by May 20. There is also some popular skepticism about the country’s public health infrastructure. About 70 percent of the hospitals in the country are considered decadent.
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The Moroccan School of Engineering Sciences (EMSI) won three medals at the international invention show, AsianInvent Singapore 2020, which was held online on Thursday May 14th. Despite the difficulties of the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown measures that…
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