Nadia El A.
The Spanish group ACS, specialized in construction and infrastructure, has just liquidated Imesapi Maroc, a second subsidiary, operating in the hydraulic engineering trades, after having closed Coinsmar Instalacionnes y Servicios, which was active in the sluggish Moroccan industrial assembly sector, a year earlier.
Closure of performance halls, theaters or concert halls, cancellation of festivals. This is what the Moroccan culture has been reduced to since the beginning of the pandemic. The situation is not at all rosy for the thousands of workers who live off culture.
Moroccans must get massively vaccinated in order to achieve herd immunity and curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is the call launched by the Minister of Health Khalid Ait Taleb .
The union of private sector doctors announced the death from coronavirus in less than a week of six doctors, most of whom practice in the Casablanca -Settat region. This shows that Moroccan healthcare professionals continue to pay a heavy price in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
The collective of Muslim institutions in Belgium condemns the "unfounded statements" of the Belgian Minister of Justice, following his injunction to suspend the recognition process of the Grand Mosque of Brussels, in disregard of the joint efforts with the public authorities and the competent services of the country.
"Moroccan art and artists remain at the heart of our collection and interpretation projects," said Mr. Dumouchelle to the MAP , during the passage in Washington of the exhibition "Golden Caravans, Fragments in Time", organized with the participation of Morocco.
A few days before the launch of the anti-Covid-19 vaccination campaign in Morocco, the debate is taking place on the establishment of an immunity passport, essential for traveling. While many Moroccans see it as a source of discrimination, given the freedom or not to be vaccinated, the Minister of Health is categorical: "it will not be possible to travel without a Covid-19 passport."
In Morocco as in Nigeria, due to the health crisis, the percentage of non-performing loans will reach double digits. Even if the prospects for African banks will be stable in 2021, the return to pre-Covid performance levels is not expected for nearly two years, analyzes Fitch Ratings.
390.92 million dirhams (MDH) is the budget allocated to investment for the Department of Housing and Urban Policy, for the year 2021. A budget down compared to 2020, which was 491.62 MDH, said the Minister of National Land Use Planning, Urban Planning, Housing and City Policy, Nouzha Bouchareb.
The Belgian Minister of Justice, also in charge of Cults, calls for the renewal of all the bodies of the Executive of Muslims of Belgium (EMB). In the past, Vincent Van Quickenborne was not in favor of the resumption of activities of the Grand Mosque of the Fiftieth, in Brussels.
For some time now, in a neighborhood of Montpellier, clever individuals have undertaken the manufacture of fake certificates. They even go as far as modifying positive Covid test results to negative, denounces the Moroccan-origin doctor El Marraki.
In search of a better future, many Moroccans risk their lives in the waters of the Atlantic to reach Spain. For this year 2020 alone, the number of migrants by sea to Spain reached 35,862, with 19,493 arrivals to the Canary Islands, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).