The city of Fnideq is getting ready to welcome tourists after the ban on cross-border trade with Ceuta. This is how development work is being initiated in this city to succeed in this conversion.
Located in the vicinity of Fnideq, the economic activity zone should come into service during the summer of 2021. The first works have started on a 10-hectare section for a project that should ultimately reach 90 hectares.
While the border with the city of Ceuta has been closed, four young Moroccans braved the sea to return to the country. However, they were arrested upon arrival at their destination.
The closure of the Ceuta border crossing, by unilateral decision of Morocco, is already having a negative impact on the Moroccan population. About 3,000 goods carriers (mule women) find themselves unemployed due to the decline in trade in the town of Fnideq, as well as in the Spanish enclave.
Several municipalities in northern Morocco, led by PJD militants, are facing a difficult economic situation that could inevitably lead them to ruin.
The "mule women", now relieved of their burdens, are twiddling their thumbs, waiting to find another alternative to their precarious social situation, impacted by the closure of the border crossing dedicated to porters between Morocco and the enclave of Ceuta.
Some 400 sub-Saharan illegal immigrants attempted, this Sunday, a collective assault on the city of Ceuta, via the border post of Belyounech, before being repelled by the Moroccan public forces.
The parliamentary prospecting mission on the situation of neglected children and women-mules at the Bab Sebta crossing point, recommends among other things the creation of a commercial free trade zone in Fnideq, in order to fight against food smuggling.
The residents of the commune of Belyounech, under the prefecture of M’diq-Fnideq , can rejoice. Indeed, the locality will be enriched in the coming months, with a promenade and socioeconomic centers, the fruit of a supplementary agreement to the rehabilitation program.
Calm has returned to Fnideq following the departure of smugglers and their families. Indeed, the Moroccan authorities have decided to close the Tarajal II border, a smuggling corridor between the city of Ceuta and Fnideq.
A young man died on Saturday, hit by a car on the highway connecting Tetouan to Fnideq at the Bouzeghlak region.
In coordination with its counterparts in M’diq and Fnideq , the prefectural service of the judicial police of Tetouan succeeded in putting an end to the activities of a criminal network of four individuals, suspected of drug trafficking, luxury cars and high-displacement vehicles.