TGV Kénitra-Marrakech: Moroccan companies in force A new Moroccan company has been awarded a major contract as part of the Kenitra-Marrakech high-speed line project. After the Moroccan group TGCC, it is the turn of Jet Contractors to take its share of the Kenitra-Marrakech LGV market. The construction specialist listed on the Casablanca stock exchange has […]
Highways: here are Morocco’s ambitions for 2025 Aziz Akhannouch’s government has great ambitions for road and motorway infrastructure. It reveals the major projects contained in the Information Note accompanying the 2025 Finance Bill. In the road sector, the government plans to continue carrying out urgent actions included within the framework of the emergency rehabilitation and […]
Morocco: EasyJet in turmoil The British airline EasyJet finds itself at the heart of a controversy after distributing a map of Morocco with its sound removed. Sahara. This map, used to illustrate the company’s annual program, provoked a wave of indignant reactions from Moroccan tourism professionals and Internet users.
In Fez, anger rises against taxi drivers Residents of Fez are angry with petit taxi drivers, accused of sowing disorder in the city. In a video shared on social networks, we see a woman getting angry with a small taxi driver from the Bab Ftouh region who refused to transport her to the destination of […]
Omar Hilale responds harshly to the Algerian ambassador Omar HilaleMoroccan ambassador to the United Nations, expressed his anger against the Algerian ambassador, Amar Bendjama, because of his obsession with the Moroccan Sahara issue. “The Algerian ambassador is so obsessed with Morocco that he ignores the Moroccan Autonomy Initiative, which provides for popular consultation at the […]
The impossible sharing of the Sahara The UN special envoy for the Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, raised this week the possibility of sharing the Sahara between Morocco and the Polisario Front to end the conflict. A solution rejected by both parties. Faced with the status quo observed for three years in the process of settling […]
Marrakech Airport: water leaks worrying The leaks observed at the roof of Marrakech-Menara airport following the heavy rains which fell on Marrakech at the end of last week, concern a member of parliament who called on the government on this subject. “The stormy rains that hit Marrakech on the evening of Sunday October 13 revealed […]
Morocco: donkey tongues to make men docile The police arrested an individual in Sidi Bennour who posed as a sorcerer. The defendant offered his clients donkey tongues supposed to make their men obedient. Many women in the region were lining up to acquire donkey’s tongue from this alleged sorcerer who made them believe that the […]
In Agadir, parking attendants make the law Parking attendants continue to dictate their law in Agadir, requiring vehicle owners to pay sometimes exorbitant rates. The phenomenon arouses indignation among residents who point out that local authorities have announced free parking for everyone, including tourists. Motorists denounce the laxity of local authorities and administrative police services […]
A Frenchman on the run in Morocco arrested in Marrakech A 37-year-old French national was arrested Friday evening in the suburbs of Marrakech, Moroccan authorities announced. The man was in an irregular situation on Moroccan territory. Of Algerian origin, he was the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by French justice last September.