A Zagora operator has seized the justice system and the Ministry of the Interior against a caïd and his deputy. He accuses them of financial blackmail and illegal destruction of his watermelon cultivation on January 16th last.
As the sacred month of Ramadan approaches, the indicators are green for the date sector. Despite water stress, Morocco is recording a historic harvest of 160,000 tons this season. An abundance that, according to professionals, should encourage consumers to favor the national product over imports.
The flight is over for one of the most wanted criminals in the Zagora region. After a long manhunt, the judicial police arrested a notorious drug trafficker, the subject of 18 national wanted notices, at the end of a chase in the palm groves.
A tragedy shook the Zagora region on Saturday afternoon. Civil protection elements fished out the lifeless body of a mother, who fell into a deep well located at her parents’ home.
Despite unfavorable weather conditions, the 2025 Moroccan watermelon campaign is marked by higher yields than last year.
Concerned about the disasters caused by the wave of hail and thundersnow on cultivated areas in certain regions of southeastern Morocco, MP Hussein Ouallal questions the Minister of Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries, Rural Development and Water and Forests, Ahmed El Bouari.
A French tourist in his sixties lost his life while leading a motorcycle expedition in the desert of M’Hamid El Ghizlane, in the province of Zagora.
The selling prices of watermelons, mainly from the Zagora regions, will reach 10 dirhams per kilogram during this marketing campaign, which will start in a few days.
The local authorities of Zagora have been carrying out a large-scale operation since last Thursday to ensure that farmers comply with the decision limiting the cultivation of watermelons in the province. Offenders will face the full force of the law.
In Morocco, the Association of Friends of the Environment denounced the uprooting of hundreds of palm trees in the Zagora region, destined to embellish the streets of the cities of the north and center of the kingdom.
A Moroccan association is sounding the alarm about the intensive cultivation of red watermelon in Zagora.
A serious road accident occurred this Friday morning. Five young people from Safed lost their lives near Ouarzazate, Morocco, while they were on a pilgrimage to Zagora.