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• Morocco Slashes Biometric ID Card Fees for Children to Boost Adoption
  7 December 2019, by Ginette

  Children will spend less to get the new biometric identity card. This was one of the key amendments introduced by parliamentary advisors to the Finance Bill (PLF 2020).
  The authorities are lowering prices to equip Moroccan children with their first biometric identity cards, whether they are 18 years old or not. Thus, the stamp duty applied to application files for obtaining the new CNIE for under 12s will be only 50 dirhams. As for the others, the stamp duty is set at 75 dirhams.
  The (…)

• Morocco Faces High Premature Birth Rate: 13.4% of Newborns Affected Annually
  7 December 2019, by Ginette

  Morocco has seen a sustained decline in the maternal and infant mortality rate in recent years. But we cannot rejoice in the prematurity rate, which is 13.41% each year, the Ministry of Health said.
  On December 4th in Rabat, during the World Prematurity Day, the Minister of Health called for mobilization to give more chances to premature children. Despite the notable progress made in the health sector of the mother and child, the WHO estimates that the rate of premature births each year (…)

• Missing Infant Found Safe in Casablanca After Swift Police Operation
  8 December 2019, by Bladi.net

  The joint actions carried out by the judicial police of the Sidi Bernoussi district in Casablanca, and the services of the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) made it possible to find, on Saturday morning, the infant who had mysteriously disappeared.
  In a statement, the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) stressed the speed of the action of the security services which, thanks to their in-depth investigations, were able to find the infant in perfect health. (…)

• Mother Sentenced to 5 Years for Drowning and Burying Son in Morocco
  14 December 2019, by Kamal

  The case dates back to last May, when a woman had caused the death of her son by pushing him into the bathtub of her bathroom, before burying him on the outskirts of the road connecting Tetouan to Tangier.
  The 42-year-old woman was sentenced, on Thursday, December 12, by the Tangier Court of Appeal to 5 years in prison, for voluntary homicide without premeditation.
  On May 29, following a missing person report filed by the victim’s father, the preliminary investigation, launched by the (…)

• Moroccan Family Accidentally Leaves 10-Year-Old Son at Spanish Rest Stop During Road Trip
  23 December 2019, by Kamal

  The Guardia Civil agents found themselves in a rather strange situation. A Moroccan family, residing in France, forgot their 10-year-old son in a rest area near Burgos.
  According to the EFE news agency, a father did not notice the absence of his son when he had resumed the road to Morocco, after a short break at a gas station in northern Spain.
  Abandoned on the spot, the child was taken care of by a truck driver, while he was walking along the A-1 motorway towards Madrid. The latter (…)

• Morocco Launches Free Cancer Treatment for Children Under 5
  27 December 2019, by Kamal

  The Ministry of Health has launched an initiative aimed at providing free treatment for children under the age of five with cancer, in public health and hospital facilities.
  According to a ministry statement, published on Thursday, December 26, the initiative is part of the royal directives aimed at harmonizing national legislative texts with international charters on the rights of the child.
  It will also implement the recommendations of the 16th National Congress on the Rights of the (…)

• Viral Video Sparks Outrage: Child’s Reaction to Black Doll Ignites Racism Debate
  29 December 2019, by Sylvanus

  As she was opening her Christmas gift, an American girl discovered, frightened, a small black doll. The publication of the video of this scene has aroused the indignation of Internet users.
  In this video posted on Snapchat, the girl’s mother says in a hilarious tone: "it’s a very cute doll". The reactions of the child and her mother quickly inflamed the web, reports 7sur7.
  "It was clearly meant to be a joke, which is even worse than the scene itself," wrote a woman on Twitter. For (…)

• Tangier School Official Accused of Sexually Abusing 12-Year-Old Student
  1 January 2020, by Ginette

  It was after discovering sexually explicit messages sent to her 12-year-old daughter by an educational supervisor that a mother became concerned. She accuses the latter of sexual abuse of a minor.
  Should parental control extend to children’s phones? The answer to this question is seriously worrying many parents, knowing that children, especially girls, can, in the era of social networks, cross the path of sexual predators of all kinds. This is the case of this twelve-year-old girl, who (…)

• Child Trafficking Attempt Foiled: 10-Year-Old Palestinian Found Hidden in Shopping Cart at Melilla Border
  3 January 2020, by Kamal

  The Guardia Civil has managed to thwart the attempt to traffic a 10-year-old Palestinian child, hidden under bags of fruits and vegetables in a shopping cart. Transiting through the Beni Nsar crossing, the child was to join the Spanish enclave Melilla.
  Behind this adventure are a 39-year-old woman and a 34-year-old man, whose nationalities have not been revealed, who had tried to smuggle the young Palestinian in a shopping cart.
  The overweight of the cart had intrigued the Guardia Civil (…)

• Swiss Businessman Donates €2 Million to Orphans Near Marrakech
  3 January 2020, by Sylvanus

  A Swiss businessman has made a donation of 2 million euros, representing half of his fortune, to about a hundred orphans and abandoned children in the Marrakech region.
  "I am Swiss. The only thing I have left of Switzerland is my little cross on the cap. My heart is Moroccan!" declared the businessman. He intends to give half of his fortune to the abandoned children of Tahannaout, near Marrakech.
  For Huppert, these children must be saved, they must be guided. "It cost me 2 million (…)