The project for the new continental highway connecting Rabat to Casablanca takes a decisive new step. The company Autoroutes du Maroc (ADM) has just relaunched a major call for tenders for the construction of two strategic viaducts, for a total estimated cost of over 600 million dirhams.
The authorities of the Wilaya of the Casablanca-Settat region are conducting campaigns to liberate and develop beaches, in preparation for the upcoming summer season.
Real estate prices have seen a sharp increase in Casablanca, following the rise in demand induced by ongoing demolitions as part of expropriation procedures for public utility and the fight against illegal constructions.
Industrial slaughterhouses in Casablanca and other major cities have been overwhelmed for several days. Thousands of sheep are being brought there to be slaughtered before Eid Al-Adha in order to circumvent the royal call to refrain from performing the sacrifice ritual this year.
Scottish entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne and his wife Nigora Whitehorn recently traveled to Morocco with the American charity Operation Smile to help save the lives of children with cleft palates.
Seven Moroccan cities are included in the ranking of the 1000 major cities around the world. However, this represents a mixed success due to the average to relatively low positions they occupy.
The Ministry of the Interior has instructed the governors of provinces and prefectures to accelerate the establishment of administrative inquiry commissions responsible for examining complaints from citizens who are victims of demolition operations and evictions affecting illegal constructions.
Following instructions from the central services of the Ministry of Interior, territorial administration officials are conducting investigations into land plots belonging to certain influential personalities, which generate colossal profits through resale or rental, and on abandoned parcels in certain industrial zones in the provinces of Nouaceur and Berrechid, which hinder the investment process, despite the improvement of infrastructure.
A twelve-story building on Abdelmoumen Avenue is at the center of a large judicial case in Casablanca. Its construction plan, which is believed to have been falsified, shows structural modifications deemed dangerous for public safety, a threat illustrated by a partial collapse that occurred in the past.
One of the most dangerous drug lords in the city of Bouskoura is no longer free to move. He has just been arrested by the Royal Gendarmerie near Bouskoura, in the suburbs of Casablanca.
In Casablanca, an 18-year-old young man was arrested by a police patrol after robbing a bank branch in the Ben M’sik neighborhood.
Deprived of housing, more than 2,600 households evicted from slums in Casablanca have received the keys to their new apartments. The authorities are working to rid the kingdom’s economic capital of slums by 2027.