The Nador West Med port is due to enter service in the fourth quarter of 2026. But the 104-kilometre motorway intended to connect it directly to the national network will not be fully completed until 2029, more than two years after the port complex opens.
Chinese state-owned group CRBC will build the entire first section of the Guercif-Nador highway . It wins all three lots connecting Guercif to Saka, for a combined amount exceeding 1.82 billion dirhams excluding taxes.
As Eid al-Adha approaches, livestock markets in the Oriental region are bustling. But the surge in sheep prices is sparking buyer outrage, while breeders point to skyrocketing costs.
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has officially launched construction on the first segment of the Guercif-Nador highway axis. This major project aims to open up the Oriental region and connect the future Nador West Med port complex.
An intervention to arrest a drug baron turned into an armed confrontation during the night of Sunday to Monday in Aït Maït. The suspect opened fire, wounding two gendarmes, before fleeing.
Two Royal Gendarmerie officers were wounded, one seriously, during a violent chase that occurred in the early hours of Sunday. The suspect, a hard drug trafficker , opened fire to escape.
The Oriental region is facing an alarming resurgence of suicides . In less than a month, seven tragic deaths have been recorded, raising serious concerns about the psychological and social fragility of the local populations.
A 65-year-old imam was killed on Friday by blows from a baton in a mosque in the province of Driouch. The assailant, a Moroccan expelled from France for advocating terrorism, was apprehended by the gendarmerie.
The construction of a giant tire factory began this Friday in the province of Driouch. Several officials attended the launch of this project presented as the largest in Africa. On site, the work has started in the Betoya industrial acceleration zone for a planned commissioning as early as next year.
The house of a Moroccan living in Spain was the target of a burglary in Driouch, where unknown individuals stole the entire contents of the premises.
In Driouch, the projects launched by King Mohammed VI in 2009 are struggling to materialize. Concerned, a citizen is appealing to the governor of the province, Abdesslam Frindou, who was overseeing road projects in the commune of Mtalssa.
Geology experts and specialists in natural seismic phenomena assure that there is no link between the earthquake in Al Haouz and the seismic shock that hit the coast of Driouch province, felt by the inhabitants of the northern cities, including Nador and Al Hoceima, in the early hours of Monday morning.