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Barely opened, the Casablanca Court of Appeal suspended and postponed to April 27 the trial of journalist Omar Radi prosecuted for "rape" and espionage, and in prison since late July 2020.
Through its Agricultural Development Fund (FDA), Morocco will support its agricultural sector by injecting some 4.5 billion dirhams in 2021. This is at least what the Ministry of Agriculture has indicated, specifying that this envelope has increased by 7% compared to last year.
The financing rate granted by participatory banks recorded a strong increase of 47.5% year-on-year, with 14.36 billion dirhams (MMDH) in February 2021.
In Morocco, tourist carriers can no longer bear the setbacks imposed by the coronavirus crisis on their activities, which have been forced to stop for more than a year and whose resumption is not on the horizon. Through the voice of their federation, they are sounding the alarm on this situation, which is causing unpaid bills, seizures of property and legal proceedings, and are proposing measures to avoid a massacre in the sector.
Officials from China Communications Construction Company/China Road and Bridge Corporation (CCCC/CRBC), the Chinese group party to the project to build the modern industrial city "Mohammed VI Tanger Tech City," have traveled to Morocco to finalize with the co-shareholders the modalities for setting up the financing of this project.
From 2000 to 2019, or nearly 20 years, trade between Morocco and its African partners has grown by an average of 9.5% per year, reaching nearly 39.6 billion dirhams (MMDH) in 2019, according to the Directorate of Studies and Financial Forecasts (DEPF).
While the number of coronavirus infections and people in intensive care is increasing, the number of deaths has dropped considerably in Morocco. This is since the expansion of the vaccination campaign to certain vulnerable social groups of the population, as revealed by an official from the Moroccan Ministry of Health.
The DGSN announced the arrest by the judicial police elements of Ksar EL Kébir, of an individual suspected of kidnapping and sequestering a 39-year-old woman.
At the initiative of their federation, cafe and restaurant owners in Morocco will start a national strike next Friday, April 9, to, they say, denounce the "government’s refusal to cooperate in implementing measures to stop the bankruptcy of their sector of activity in this period of pandemic".
Appointed head of the Moroccan national football team nineteen months ago, the results recorded by the Franco-Bosnian, Vahid Halilhodzic, fuel the debate on his performance. This debate, which takes the form of an interim assessment, highlights the successes and failures of the coach of the Atlas Lions.
The Moroccan opposition denounces the silence maintained by the government on the national re-confinement or not during the month of Ramadan , demanding in this regard, more fluid communication with public opinion on the management of the pandemic.
The Moroccan authorities are warning about the epidemiological situation which they consider "worrying" in the Kingdom with the discovery of at least 73 cases of the British variant of the coronavirus.