Many countries across the Middle East and North Africa, or MENA, region have faced critical challenges in ensuring the effective and equitable vaccination of their citizens against COVID-19. With a few exceptions, like Morocco, Israel and several Gulf states, countries in the region have faced difficulties in securing sufficient doses due to logistical constraints, poor planning and vaccine hesitancy.
Covid-19 in the Middle East: Regional Impact and Future Recovery
SANA Expert Briefing series—Webinar 4: Morocco's Foreign Policy
The last 12 months of battling the coronavirus pandemic have highlighted significant gaps that must be addressed in the Moroccan, Jordanian, and Tunisian public health sectors.
These monarchies' unfulfilled unfulfilled promises of reform and development will catch up with them, and they will have to adapt the ways in which they interact with opposition actors and their wider populations, especially as further and greater contestation is imminent.
As economic hardship and political infighting persist in debt-laden Tunisia, the EU should raise its concerns about the escalation of violence in the country and work to prevent it from sliding back into repression
Morocco carefully navigated the Gulf crisis to protect its diplomatic and financial interests and it stands to benefit from its partial resolution
Yasmina Abouzzohour : “Pour le Maroc, le rapprochement dans le Golfe aura surtout des bénéfices économiques”
Morocco is the clearest winner, and Algeria may be open to a rapprochement.
Morocco’s experience in addressing the economic fallout from #COVID-19 illustrates many of the economic challenges that middle-income countries are facing and the fiscal limitations they confront.
