COVID-19 Prevents Moroccan Expatriates from Summer Visits Home

The Covid-19 pandemic is preventing many families from North Africa from spending the summer vacation in their countries of origin. This is the case of Mounain Mimmi’s small family not being able to travel to Morocco. For five years, they have not returned to their country of origin. "We have visited Europe in recent years, Italy, Germany and this summer, we had planned to go there, the children really wanted to go," the family father confides to the newspaper Le Dauphiné Libéré.

The epidemiological situation in the kingdom is not reassuring. "We can’t know what will happen in the meantime, the situation is so fragile," he despairs. In addition, there are Covid-19 screening tests to be done before leaving France.

This Moroccan living abroad (MRE) has a sister who is still stuck in Morocco. "My sister was supposed to come in April but with Covid-19, she had to cancel. Since she is currently working, it is not planned that she will come right away. Fortunately, there is WhatsApp," he relativizes.

Faced with this impossibility of spending the summer vacation in Morocco, Mr. Mimmi resigns himself. "(…) We will criss-cross France," he says. His heart hesitates between two destinations: the Pyrenees-Orientales and the Ardèche.