The Spanish public broadcasting company (RTVE) presented a complete map of Morocco integrating the Sahara, during a program highlighting the city of Dakhla as a leading tourist destination.
Morocco continues its efforts to clear the areas adjacent to the roads of explosives and remnants of past conflicts, in order to strengthen public safety and the protection of human lives. In this sense, a new operation to destroy the remnants of cluster bombs and mines took place in the El Argoub area, near Dakhla.
Algeria has not reacted to King Mohammed VI’s speech on the occasion of the Throne Feast, in which he called for finding a "consensual solution" to the conflict in the Sahara, "in which there is neither winner nor loser, while preserving the dignity of all parties". Meanwhile, the United States is announcing major investments in the Moroccan Sahara.
Morocco has announced its project to build a new public data center with a capacity of 500 megawatts, which will be fully powered by renewable energy. According to the Minister of Digital Transition, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, this initiative aims to strengthen the security and sovereignty of national data storage.
Announced in November 2023 by King Mohammed VI, the "Atlantic Initiative" aims to facilitate access to the ocean for the landlocked countries of the Sahel (Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad) through the port of Dakhla, under construction in the north of the city.
The presidents of the Regional Tourism Councils (CRT) of Marrakech, Agadir and Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceima hope for occupancy rates of 80% this summer. Due to an obvious seasonality, the Oriental, Dakhla and Fès-Meknès will welcome fewer tourists during this summer season.
Morocco expects an influx of travelers during the high tourist season. Meanwhile, airlines like Ryanair are seeking to strengthen their connection with the kingdom after the winter season when attendance was not as expected.
The delay in the completion of the seawater desalination plant in the city of Dakhla, despite royal directives, has provoked the irritation of the Minister of Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries, Water and Forests, Ahmed El Bouari.
Since the beginning of the year, Ryanair has cancelled routes with high occupancy rates in Spain, and launched routes to Dakhla, in the Moroccan Sahara, recording, according to the Spanish press, low occupancy rates.
Two Moroccan natural sites are among the 44 most beautiful places in the world, according to the 2025 ranking by the British magazine Time Out, specialized in media and hospitality.
The Moroccan authorities expelled on Sunday David Blanco, the head of external relations of the Spanish General Confederation of Labor (CGT), who arrived the day before in Dakhla, in the Moroccan Sahara, and met with separatist activists.
The Tiznit-Dakhla expressway will soon be delivered. The work on the last section connecting the Maadour roundabout in the province of Tiznit to the city of Guelmim, passing through the province of Sidi Ifni, has been completed on Friday.