Morocco Unveils Emergency Plan to Support Expatriates Amid COVID-19 Crisis

The objective of the emergency action plan project for MREs is to help Moroccans in difficult situations cope with the perverse effects of the coronavirus, said the delegate minister in charge of MREs, Nezha El Ouafi. This was during a videoconference meeting of the Technical Committee from the ministerial commission in charge of MREs. The emergency action plan project provides for a series of administrative, economic and social measures in the short and medium term, Nezha El Ouafi specified.

The Technical Committee is invited to deepen the reflections on the most important measures of the project and to formulate its opinions and recommendations in view of the requirements of the situation, reports La Map. The focus will be on the implementation mechanism of each measure, with a view to submitting the plan project to the inter-ministerial commission. Ms. El Ouafi praised the inter-ministerial commission and the technical committee for their actions that have made it possible to address the concerns of MREs on administrative, consular, social, cultural, legal and economic levels.

The main objective of this meeting, explained Ms. El Ouafi, is the institutional presentation, with a unified vision, of the content of this plan, in anticipation of all the challenges that Moroccans of the world would face in the host countries. The problems of reintegration after the return to Morocco of families affected by covid-19 are also taken into account. The minister recalled the urgent measures taken for the benefit of MREs.

Abdellah Boussouf, secretary general of the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME), welcomed the mobilization of institutions and human and material resources in order to provide optimal services to MREs to counter the virus. He recalled that in the concern for synergy of actions, the CCME has abandoned the programs already prepared to undertake exceptional programs aimed at stemming the consequences of the pandemic on the MREs. He mentioned the launch of a digital platform for listening and supervising the interventions of the MREs, specifies the same source.