The National Road No. 5 connecting Laâyoune to Gueltate Zemmour and the Regional Road No. 109 connecting Laâyoune to Tarfaya are now difficult to access due to the phenomenon of sand encroachment generated by strong gusts of wind.
The closure of the Tarfaya maritime line causes enormous inconvenience to members of the Moroccan community based in the Canary Islands. They have to incur a lot of expenses to go home, while the journey itself proves to be arduous and can take three days.
Since 2008, the ship Assalama, which sank in the Port of Tarfaya, has been abandoned, posing a serious environmental problem. Unable to tolerate the setbacks resulting from this situation any longer, the Moroccan Government has called on Naviera Armas, the Canarian company that owns the ship, to remove the wreck, under penalty of embargo.
On Thursday, August 8, 2019, on National Road No. 1 connecting Tarfaya to Akhenfir, a traffic accident claimed the lives of an entire family.
Terrible accident in southern Morocco where a French woman was killed on the road connecting the cities of Laâyoune to Tarfaya. The tragedy occurred on Sunday evening.