Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, has called on the parties to the conflict in Western Sahara to exercise restraint during a telephone conversation with his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday

Moroccan Health Minister Khalid Ait Taleb told Sputnik on Friday he was planning to hold negotiations with Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko on Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V next week

Morocco expects that the population will start receiving shots of a coronavirus vaccine developed by Chinese pharma giant Sinopharm's subsidiary, CNBG, in mid-December, Health Minister Khalid Ait Taleb told Sputnik in an interview

The US Department of Commerce has made a preliminary decision that phosphate fertilizers exporters from Russia and Morocco received government assistance thus gaining an unfair advantage in US market, which will lead to imposition of countervailing duties on phosphate fertilizer imports from these countries, according to the department's International Trade Administration (ITA)

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) welcomed the talks between the rival Libyan government's legislative bodies on a possible merger of their lawmakers, which kicked off Tuesday in Morocco