At the gates of the Sahara, Morocco has built one of the world’s largest solar power plants . Yet despite this stated ambition, fossil fuels continue to dominate the national electricity grid, hindering the country’s ecological transition.
France 3 is broadcasting "Voyage Voyage, stars sing in Morocco" this Friday at 9:00 pm. This 2h15 musical event brings together French-speaking artists for a cultural and human immersion between Rabat, Fès and Ouarzazate.
The General Directorate of Meteorology (DGM ) announced that these disturbances will affect the country from Tuesday at 06:00 until Wednesday at 23:00. This cooling concerns mainly the high-altitude areas located above 1,400 meters.
The Court of Cassation has confirmed that offenses recorded by approved speed cameras constitute irrefutable legal evidence. This decision, issued on 26 February 2025, validates automated technical findings even when no ticketing officer is physically present.
The National Meteorological Directorate has issued an orange alert bulletin forecasting heavy snowfall from Tuesday in several provinces of the Kingdom. The Atlas peaks will be particularly affected by this phenomenon, which will persist until Thursday.
Since 11:30 this Thursday, several regions have been experiencing “strong wind gusts accompanied by sand or dust storms.” Placed under orange weather alert, this weather event is marked by wind speeds “ranging between 75 and 110 km/h.”
A report from the "13h Découverte" program on France Télévisions takes us on a six-day immersion in the Moroccan South , far from the usual tourist circuits. Eight French hikers have traded the winter gloom for the sand dunes of Nesrat. For Bruno and Sylvie, a retired couple used to snowy peaks, the contrast is total: "All this sand dune, southern Morocco, we don’t know at all. For us, it’s more snow, winter."
The road link project between Marrakech and Ouarzazate is taking a decisive step. The Minister of Equipment and Water, Nizar Baraka, confirmed that the Ourika tunnel option is now considered the most appropriate, thus ruling out the alternative of the Tichka tunnel.
The night from Monday to Tuesday was particularly agitated in the Aït Kdif region of Ouarzazate. A police operation against a drug trafficking network turned into an armed confrontation, triggering a large-scale manhunt to find the fleeing suspects.
Five people were killed in a serious accident that occurred this Saturday on the regional road connecting Ghessat to Demnate, in the province of Ouarzazate. Five others were seriously injured.
In the Tassrirt region, near Ouarzazate, residents and civil society actors are sounding the alarm about a growing environmental threat: the depletion of the water table. They point to the "irrational" expansion of watermelon cultivation, driven by foreign investments, in a region already weakened by drought.
Based on precise information provided by the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), the regional security services of Salé and the city have succeeded in arresting in Ouarzazate an individual who was posing as a colonel or a senior police commissioner to defraud many people in the southeast of the kingdom and in Rabat and Salé.