After their defeat against the United States in a friendly on Monday, the Atlas Lions should show a different face against South Africa next Thursday, in their first match counting towards the 2023 AFCON qualifiers. The team is currently fine-tuning its strategies to win this match, reinforcements are announced in defense.
Morocco has just updated its health protocol for international travel by establishing a List C of countries whose travelers are prohibited from entering Moroccan territory.
Morocco could close its borders with Europe, given the critical health situation in some countries like Belgium or France, and the discovery of a new variant in South Africa.
Passengers from South Africa will not be able to set foot on Moroccan soil. The Moroccan authorities fear the B.1.1.529 variant, detected in southern Africa.
Morocco is the first African country to have acquired and administered the most doses of Covid-19 vaccines to its population, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) of the African Union.
BioNTech, a German biotechnology company specializing in the development and manufacture of active immunotherapies in the treatment of serious diseases, is betting on Africa to boost its production. In this sense, it plans to open a factory in one of the following five countries: Morocco , Egypt, South Africa, Tunisia or Senegal.
Casablanca is in the ranking of the 10 richest cities in Africa. Johannesburg is at the top of the pack.
Morocco is featured in the new ranking of the richest countries in Africa in terms of wealth per capita published by AfrAsia Bank, in collaboration with the New World Wealth firm based in South Africa.
The ambassador, permanent representative of Morocco to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, denounced the instrumentalization of the African Union by South Africa. The Moroccan diplomat sent a letter to the permanent representative of the United Nations Organization in which he denounced Pretoria’s crusade against the Moroccanness of the Sahara.
Naledi Pandor, South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, who had expressed her opposition to the US recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara, calls on the new US President to cancel the decision of his predecessor.
In 2019, Egypt removed customs duties on cars imported from the European Union, without changing the customs duties on parts. Dissatisfied, the Japanese automotive group Nissan suggests to Cairo to follow the model of local component production and the tax regime of Morocco.
The American recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara is not to the liking of Naledi Pandor, South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation. She denounces a violation of "international law".