London, March 23, 2021 (AltAfrica)-In Morocco organic farming has been experiencing rapid growth in the last years, and it does not appear to be slowing. Besides the Green Morocco Plan, the North African country has made serious efforts to promote organic farming. Morocco specializes in two types of organic products: medicinal and aromatic plants, and ...

 London, March 18, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Health authorities in Morocco have now vaccinated 2,116,081 citizens against the COVID-19 virus. Morocco’s vaccination campaign has now reached 4,244,651 with their first dose, with half now haven received their immunity-giving second jab.  Over the last 24 hours, 466 new cases were detected in Morocco, as well as another 8 COVID-19 ...

London, March 13, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Morocco’s Health Ministry has ordered one million doses of the Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine. Morocco’s Health Minister Khalid Ait Taleb confirmed the news in a statement to the Spanish news agency EFE. The Spanish news outlet reports that Ait Taleb said that Morocco is set to receive the first batch of the Russia’s ...

London, March 11, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Morocco launched a vaccination campaign for prisoners at the Tiflet I local prison near Rabat on Wednesday. Tafouk Abtal, Head of the health division at the General Delegation for Prison Administration and Reintegration (DGAPR) said that the operation is taking place under the best conditions. He said that inmates in prisons ...

London, March 2, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Morocco has added Italy and Belgium to the list of countries with which to suspend air links, in order to limit the spread of COVID-19. The COVID-19 safety measures affect 56 flights from Air Arabia, Royal Air Maroc, and TUI at Brussels Airport, reports the Belga news agency. READ ALSO: NEW ...

London, Feb. 25, 2021 (AltAfrica)- The fossil of an enormous marine coelacanth fish that lived during the Late Cretaceous epoch, about 66 million years ago has been unearthed by Scientists in Oued Zem, Morocco’s Beni Mellal-Khenifra region. Coelacanths are large, plump, lobe-finned fish that can grow to more than 2 meters (6 feet 6 inches) and weigh around 90 ...

London, Feb. 25, 2021 (AltAfrica)-A new batch of AstraZeneca vaccines has arrived in Casablanca, Morocco, from India on February 24, according to converging local reports. The 1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine were delivered aboard a Royal Air Maroc (RAM) aircraft, flying from Mumbai, India. The vaccine is produced by the Serum Institute of India ...

London, Feb. 18, 2021(AltAfrica)-Morocco’s COVID-19 epidemic continues its steady decline amid a vaccination campaign that has now hit over 2 million.  Morocco launched a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Thursday, Jan 29, a day after receiving the first batch of Chinese vaccines Moroccan King Mohammed VI received the first shot of COVID-19 vaccine on as ...

London, Feb. 16, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Morocco and Zimbabwe are taken delivery of Covid-19 vaccines as vaccination takes off fully and progressing well Across African countries Zimbabwe is the latest to join the fray as President Emmerson Mnangagwa received his country’s first batch of COVID-19 vaccines on Monday READ ALSO: DRC BEGINS IMMEDIATE EBOLA VACCINATION AS GUINEA ...

London, Feb. 12, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Morocco received a second batch of 4 million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine on Thursday, having began Africa’s first national vaccination campaign two weeks ago, health ministry sources said. The shipment of AstraZeneca vaccines, manufactured by India’s Serum Institute, arrived on a Royal Air Maroc flight in Casablanca. “This new ...