Summer camps are not on the agenda this year. To fill the void, Othmane El Ferdaous , the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, announces the development of an action plan. In terms of leisure and recreation, children and young people will not "be idle", he reassures.
Two children around ten years old died, on Sunday early afternoon, drowned in the pond of an agricultural farm in the Azilal region.
The mental health of children, after several months of confinement, is a concern for various health actors (pediatricians, child psychiatrists), parliamentarians and civil society associations. They call on the government to take the problem seriously and accelerate deconfinement in order to ensure medical follow-up of this very vulnerable part of the population.
Gynecologist Khalid Fathi, accused of misogyny and victim of media lynching after his remarks on rape, explains himself.
According to the High Commission for Planning (HCP) , among the 7,271,000 children aged 7 to 17 years, Morocco had 200,000 economically active children in 2019, a decrease of 23.5% compared to 2017.
Measuring the evolution with respect to the respect and improvement of children’s rights, "KidsRights" is the only globally recognized index in the world.
Since the establishment of the state of emergency, the deadlines for registering newborns in the civil status registers have been suspended. More than two months later, a new schedule has been established.
After two successive miscarriages, Zineb, a young woman from Casablanca, gave birth last week to quadruplets. A happy event in this very difficult period.
The cases of children testing positive for coronavirus in Morocco amount to 625, representing nearly 9.4% of all infections. To date, 315 children have been declared cured of covid-19, with only one death due to kidney failure.
The story of the torturing stepmother has not finished revealing all its secrets. We now learn that this 8-year-old child, living in Khenifra , had been subjected by his stepmother to torture sessions by fire, during the confinement.
Covid-19 infections are also affecting children. In Morocco, more than 500 children under the age of 14 have been confirmed positive since the first case was recorded.
A Moroccan national is suspected of attempted homicide on his 3-year-old son. The man is in a coma after falling from the window of his home in Lahnstein, Germany.