Couscous rations were distributed on Friday, April 17, to workers in professions exposed in the fight against coronavirus. This solidarity initiative is a joint initiative of the Arrahma mosque and the association Le palmier in Cholet.
A member of the Moroccan parliament , affiliated with the Istiqlal party, died last Wednesday in France, where he had been stranded since the closure of the Moroccan borders.
Tough times for asylum seekers in the Île-de-France region since March 23. Seven associations have urgently seized the Paris administrative court, to force the State to provide this public service, despite the confinement imposed by covid-19.
The Moroccan student coldly murdered in Amiens, France, Salma Laaziri, was buried on Wednesday, April 15 in a Muslim section of the cemetery, pending the repatriation of her remains to Marrakech, as soon as the state of health emergency is lifted.
With the saturation of Muslim sections due to the many coronavirus-related deaths, several Muslim families in France are in turmoil. And the fact that some Maghreb countries refuse the repatriation of the deceased, to limit the risk of virus spread, is not helping the situation.
The officials of the Montreynaud mosque, managed by the Turkish Cultural Association of Saint-Étienne (ACTS), expressed their consternation in the evening of Tuesday, April 14, upon discovering an Islamophobic inscription.
Since the suspension of air and sea links by Morocco due to the coronavirus, thousands of Moroccans remain stranded abroad. They recount their ordeal and call on the Moroccan authorities to work for their repatriation.
President Emmanuel Macron stated that the gradual deconfinement could be possible on May 11. Implicitly, there will be no Tarawih prayers this year, as mosques will remain closed.
The Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) reacted to the racist remarks made by French doctors on LCI about conducting vaccine tests in Africa to counter the coronavirus, and "firmly warned" the channel.
On CNews, columnist Karim Zeribi hailed the efforts made by Morocco in managing the health crisis.
The health crisis has had no impact on the agricultural labor force in Lot-et-Garonne. Moroccans and Europeans are the seasonal workers employed in the fields and greenhouses.
French parliamentarians are calling on the government to regularize undocumented immigrants because of covid-19. There are about a hundred of them, including the Franco-Moroccan, M’jid El Guerrab, deputy for French citizens abroad. They have sent a letter to the government to notify them of their request.