Mimouna, a mother, is stranded in Morocco due to the state of health emergency and the suspension of air travel due to covid-19. Tired of these involuntarily extended holidays, she is making an urgent call for help to return to Orléans where her children are waiting desperately.
Foreign and Defense Minister Philippe Goffin stated that 264 Belgians were repatriated from Morocco on a flight on Friday, May 1. Another plane took off from Casablanca on Saturday, May 2, to reach Brussels Airport.
The repatriation of Moroccans stranded abroad is now imperative. They do not represent a risk of spreading the coronavirus . Their continued stay outside Moroccan territory risks draining the Kingdom’s coffers.
The thousands of Belgians and Belgian-Moroccans stranded in Morocco for a month and a half are desperate about the organization of their repatriation to Belgium.
Stranded in Morocco, a Frenchman launched an online petition on April 14 to demand his repatriation by ferry from the government.
Air France has scheduled a series of special flights for the repatriation of French and dual nationals stranded in Morocco for weeks due to the closure of air links.
A Moroccan stranded in Bilbao, Spain, addressed the authorities of his country, praising the remarkable efforts deployed to curb the covid-19 pandemic.
The Moroccans blocked since March 15 in Melilla will finally be able to return to the country. They will first be subjected to systematic covid-19 screening upon arrival in Nador .
Finally a glimmer of hope for the 22,000 Moroccans stranded abroad? This is, in any case, what the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita, hinted at during a meeting in parliament on Thursday, April 23.
The French actor of Moroccan origin, Saïd Taghmaoui has, in a video, asked France and Morocco to organize the repatriation of their respective nationals blocked in Morocco and France.
In application of the instructions given by the ministry in charge of Foreign Affairs, the Moroccan Consulate General in Dubai has set up a crisis cell with three telephone numbers dedicated entirely to citizens.
Faced with the impossibility of repatriating the bodies of Muslims who died from covid-19 from France to Morocco and other Maghreb countries, and the lack of space in the Muslim sections for their burial, the L.E.S Musulmans platform has launched the Janaza emergency plan. This is a "national mobilization for Muslim sections".