The city of Casablanca plans to entrust the management of its parking meters and parking lots to a specialized company. The objective is to improve urban traffic.
In anticipation of hosting major sporting events such as the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN Morocco 2025), the municipal council of the city of Casablanca is installing surveillance cameras to ensure the safety of the city, but also to effectively combat illegal dumping and incivility.
Casablanca is finally preparing to establish a cleanliness police force. A project that has been announced for years and whose implementation has been postponed several times.
At the request of the Civil Guard, the Nature Protection Service (Seprona) is investigating an illegal transfer of textile waste from Morocco to the industrial area of Zabal, in La Línea de la Concepción. Several people would be involved in this illegal traffic.
Hurricane Gabrielle, formed in the North Atlantic basin, is heading towards the Azores, then Portugal and should have an impact on Morocco.
The Maârif district in Casablanca has now banned the installation of satellite dishes. This measure is included in its urban development plan and could eventually apply to the entire economic capital.
Environmental activists are strongly opposed to the implementation of a major tourism project in the Rmilat forest in Tangier, considered the last natural space within the city’s urban perimeter.
In Morocco, the argan industry is struggling due to the drought. This is negatively impacting the argan tree, which is no longer producing enough fruit as it once did.
The union of owners and drivers of light and heavy trucks in the Tanger–Tétouan region, affiliated with the Moroccan Union of Labor, has denounced, in a complaint filed with the Wali of the region, the sand looting operations carried out in broad daylight on the beaches, calling for urgent intervention to put an end to these practices.
The development of the Bouregreg Valley requires the expropriation of several plots. Mohamed Yacoubi, Wali of the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region, has recently issued a decree in this regard.
Despite the efforts of the local authorities, the phenomenon of illegal and anarchic occupation of the public maritime domain on several beaches under the jurisdiction of the prefecture of Agadir Ida-Outanane and other practices resist over time.
In Casablanca, the relocation of the Bouih slum located in the Aïn Sebaâ neighborhood is not well received by the slum residents. They denounce "dubious maneuvers" within the framework of the real estate project intended to rehouse them before the demolition of their precarious dwellings.