The "Laâyouneconnect" platform, financed by the government of the United States of America, will be launched very soon with the aim of boosting investment and territorial marketing in the Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra region by seizing the opportunities offered in particular by Dakhla.
Covid-19 obliges! Due to a rise in coronavirus cases recorded in Dakhla schools, face-to-face classes are suspended there. The decision comes from the Regional Academy of Education and Training (AREF) of Dakhla Oued El-Dahab.
The cities of Laâyoune and Dakhla have recently been the scene of violent clashes between members of smuggling networks. The origin was a settling of scores between traffickers.
The largest bridge connecting Europe and sub-Saharan Africa via Morocco will be operational in 2022, the completion date of the expressway project in the Tiznit-Dakhla region.
The Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita, said yes to his Algerian counterpart Sabri Boukadoum, who invited him to negotiations on the Sahara issue. It was in Dakhla, in the company of his Senegalese counterpart Aïssata Tall Sall during the inauguration of his country’s consulate general in this city, that the minister expressed his decision.
The Moroccan opposition denounces the silence maintained by the government on the national re-confinement or not during the month of Ramadan , demanding in this regard, more fluid communication with public opinion on the management of the pandemic.
Local authorities have decided to re-confine the city of Dakhla, in southern Morocco. This decision follows the detection of 49 positive cases of the British variant of Covid-19.
Military maneuvers will take place in the Moroccan Sahara as part of the African Lion 21 exercises scheduled for next June. A first.
Dakhla, one of the tourist destinations in southern Morocco, was not spared the ravages of the health crisis. But very early on, this region has relaunched its tourism.
At the initiative of the Moroccan-American network, a virtual economic summit will be held on Monday, March 29. American economists and investors will participate in this webinar, the objective of which is to study the modalities for setting up viable economic partnerships for the benefit of the Laayoune Sakia El Hamra and Dakhla Oued-Eddahab regions.
The visit of a delegation from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in coordination with the Moroccan authorities to Laâyoune and Dakhla is not to the liking of the Polisario. The independence movement expresses its anger through Oubi Bouchraya Bachir, its representative in Europe.
Between patriotism and a desire to discover a region they know little about, many Moroccan tourists are flocking to Dakhla, where "health security is completely assured." The area is also attracting foreign residents.