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Rabat – Morocco has donated a batch of Sinopharm vaccines to Mauritania, according to converging local reports.
Anbaa, a Mauritanian news outlet said that a Royal Air Maroc departed from Morocco to China to transfer a batch of Snipharm doses to Mauritania.
Moroccan news outlet Le360 confirmed the report, quoting a source who said: “Thanks to Morocco, Mauritania will now have more vaccines than Algeria.”
The Moroccan and Mauritanian governments have not yet confirmed the news, but reports in the Mauritanian press spoke of the arrival of a second batch of Sinopharm on Saturday.
One Mauritanian outlet said the batch was a donation that consisted of 280,000 doses and “came within the framework of the strong bilateral relations between Mauritania and China.”
Reports on Morocco’s vaccine donation come just a few days after Nouakchott and Rabat announced their determination to cement bilateral cooperation.
On Monday, Morocco’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita, met with his Mauritanian counterpart Islamil Ould CHeih Ahmed.
During the meeting, the two officials commended the “constant communication” and “shared ambitions” binding both their countries.
They also agreed to boost cooperation on trade, stressing that the growing economic relations between Morocco and Mauritania “need extra attention.”
This is not the first time Morocco sends medical aid to Mauritania as part
Mauritania was part of a list of 15 African countries to which Morocco sent medical aid following the outbreak of COVID-19.
The aid included 8 million face masks, 900,000 visors, 600,000 hygiene caps, 30,000 liters of hydroalcoholic gel, as well as 75,000 packs of chloroquine and 15,000 packs of Azithromycin – two medicines that have been largely used across Africa in the treatment of COVID-19 patients.
The other countries that benefited from Morocco’s medical aid were Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Comoros Senegal, Zambia, Niger, Chad, Zambia, among others.
