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• Controversial Café in Moroccan Roundabout Sparks Public Outrage Despite Official Approval
  29 June 2024, by Sylvanus

  Despite the clarifications of the urban agency of Khémisset, the controversy is escalating around the construction of a two-story café in the middle of a roundabout in the commune of Sidi Allal Bahraoui.
  On Facebook, the Urban Agency of Khémisset has sought to "clarify the circumstances of the case and defend the legitimacy of the project". It thus affirmed that the project is "authorized" and that the owner of the café has a specific property certificate for the roundabout, registered in (…)

• Morocco’s Civil Service Wage Bill Soars, Straining Public Finances
  24 October 2024, by Prince

  In Morocco, the some 570,917 civil servants should cost the State 180.27 billion dirhams in terms of salaries in 2025, which represents 10.96% of GDP and nearly 53% of the planned investment. Expenses that weigh heavily on public finances.
  The average civil servant’s salary has been steadily increasing for a decade. According to L’Économiste, it has increased by 30.14% between 2014 and 2024, reaching 9,500 dirhams currently. The minimum wage, for its part, has increased from 3,000 dirhams (…)

• Morocco Cracks Down on Illegal Water Wells Amid Resource Concerns
  24 August 2024, by Sylvanus

  Sanctions for those who illegally appropriate water resources in Morocco by digging wells and boreholes in an anarchic manner without authorization. The competent authorities have just issued strict instructions.
  Complying with the instructions of the pachas and caids, the water police and the water basin agencies are conducting sweeping campaigns. Those who illegally appropriate water resources in Morocco by digging wells and boreholes in an anarchic manner without authorization will be (…)

• Morocco Intensifies Crackdown on Informal Economy to Boost Tax Revenue
  3 March, by Sylvanus

  The fight against the informal economy remains the battle horse of the Directorate General of Taxes (DGI). In this sense, it has adopted a new strategy.
  The DGI classifies the informal economy into two distinct categories. On the one hand, the structural informal economy: this category includes players generating significant profits without contributing to the state’s tax revenues, thus causing considerable losses to the general treasury of the kingdom. On the other hand, the subsistence (…)

• Morocco Unveils Plan to Digitize 2,500 Government Procedures
  28 June 2023, by Said

  The government intends to soon simplify and digitize some 2,500 procedures. This is what Ghita Mezzour, Minister of Digital Transition and Public Administration Reform, declared to the House of Representatives.
  This strategy is part of the e-government project. A roadmap has been developed, involving several key partners, including the Ministries of the Interior, Justice, Industry and Trade, as well as Economy and Finance.
  The citizen can already, she says, benefit from many digital (…)

• Rabat to Install AI-Powered Video Surveillance System
  25 January, by Sylvanus

  Urban security will be further strengthened in Rabat. A call for tenders for the installation of an advanced video surveillance system in the city has been launched by the Rabat Region Development Company.
  Soon an advanced video surveillance system integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning technologies in Rabat. The Rabat Region Development Company has launched a call for tenders for the installation of an advanced video surveillance system in the city of Rabat, (…)

• Morocco Cracks Down on "Ghost Workers": Hundreds Fired, Hundreds More Warned
  18 April 2023, by Prince

  The government of Aziz Akhannouch has already dismissed nearly 300 "ghost civil servants" since taking office. 500 others have been notified of a warning.
  About 300 "ghost civil servants" serving in ministries, public administrations, various regions of the kingdom, or within certain local authorities, have been dismissed from the civil service by the government of Aziz Akhannouch in the first few months of his appointment, reports the daily Assabah, specifying that nearly 500 other (…)

• Marrakech Students Face Transit Crisis as Bus Services Deteriorate
  25 October 2024, by Sylvanus

  The residents of Tamansourt, especially students and trainees pursuing their training at the Vocational Training Institute, are facing enormous difficulties. The local section of Marrakech of the Moroccan Association of Human Rights calls on the competent authorities for urgent intervention.
  Weakness of the bus services on line 421B, repeated delays in trips, lengthening of travel times compared to the previous situation... These are the complaints received by the local section of (…)

• La Redoute Worker Loses Legal Battle Over Clementine-Eating Suspension
  16 November 2019, by Sylvanus

  La Redoute employee Smaïl Bella was dismissed by the industrial tribunal last Thursday after appealing against his one-day suspension in 2017 for eating a clementine.
  "I find it outrageous, I’m in shock. The La Redoute sanction was already completely disproportionate, and now I feel like justice doesn’t exist," fumed Smaïl Bella, an order picker and CGT representative. He also lost 70% of his gross salary because of his attitude.
  His version of the facts is somewhat different. Smaïl (…)

• Delays in Residence Permit Processing Spark Protests in Val-de-Marne
  6 March, by Prince

  The prefecture of Val-de-Marne is in the sights of associations denouncing administrative slowness in the processing of residence permit applications for foreigners. Demonstrations have already taken place in front of the prefecture in Créteil.
  About thirty associations gathered a few days ago in front of the prefecture of Val-de-Marne to protest against the lack of speed in the processing of residence permit applications for foreigners. "I feel like a ghost. It’s hard to live with every (…)