
World Bank Approves $300 Million Loan to Modernize Morocco's Public Sector
The World Bank’s Board of Directors granted a new loan to Morocco on Tuesday, September 7, 2021. This financing will be used to develop the public sector.
Nadia El A.

The World Bank’s Board of Directors granted a new loan to Morocco on Tuesday, September 7, 2021. This financing will be used to develop the public sector.

A field hospital is being set up in Ouarzazate . The infrastructure will help alleviate the pressure of new Covid cases on other hospital facilities throughout the province.

Spain is concerned about Algeria’s intention to renounce the gas pipeline that has been supplying it for twenty years via Morocco. Moreover, the Iberian peninsula fears the huge loss that the three countries would suffer if the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline is not renewed after October 31, the date of its expiration.

"The Feast of Oriental Song" is the show filmed in Marrakech that France 2 is offering its viewers this Saturday evening in prime time. Big names in music, culture and show business, but also in politics, from France and Morocco, had the privilege of a preview of the best moments of this show, during a gala evening at the Arab World Institute (IMA).

Morocco will soon welcome the first foreign doctors on its soil. The legal framework already exists with the adoption of a new law on the practice of medicine, in particular, the provisions concerning the facilitation of access conditions for foreigners to practice this profession in the country.

New car sales in Morocco have withstood the health crisis. Over the first eight months of the year, an increase of 13.81% was recorded for a total of 118,382 units sold.

New recommendations have been issued by the national technical and scientific vaccination committee for the updating of care protocols and the strengthening of preventive measures for pregnant and breastfeeding women and newborns.

Morocco will soon proceed with the manufacture and filling of anti-Covid-19 vaccines made in Morocco. The first doses of the precious product, the result of the collaboration between the Chinese laboratory Sinopharm, the origin of the vaccine of the same name, and its Moroccan counterpart Sothema, are announced for next December.

The Spanish Unísono Group is now part of the portfolio of the Moroccan [Intelcia]. Through this acquisition approved by the Boards of Directors of the two groups on August 6, 2021, Intelcia is expanding its international development with new capabilities in customer relationship management and digital transformation.

The Moroccan minors who entered the city of [Ceuta] on May 17 and 18 will be enrolled in school at the next school year. The authorities of the city, in coordination with the Spanish Ministry of Education, have selected five high schools for this purpose, and are already working to set up the corresponding classrooms.

Some 220 people directly or indirectly involved in the falsification of health passes, vaccination certificates and PCR tests have been arrested in recent days in Morocco. The authorities had warned that the justice system would be systematically seized.

Following the severance of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Algeria , José Manuel Albares, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, expressed his country’s desire to contribute to a climate of calm, tranquility and good neighborliness in the western Mediterranean.