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• Morocco Plans 420-Kilometer Highway Linking Marrakech to Fez at $2.8 Billion Cost
  11 April, by Said

  Morocco has officially launched preliminary studies to determine the technical specifications and financing model for a highway project connecting Marrakech to Fez via Beni Mellal and Khenifra.
  The cost of this infrastructure is currently estimated at around 28 billion dirhams. According to information provided by Nizar Baraka, Minister of Equipment and Water, in a written response to a parliamentary question, this project represents a key infrastructure development for the country. "This (…)

• Moroccan Singer Dounia Batma Released After Serving One-Year Sentence
  31 January, by Sylvanus

  Moroccan singer Dounia Batma, who was convicted and incarcerated in Marrakech as part of the "Hamza Mon Bb" case, has just been released from prison after serving a one-year sentence.
  Dounia Batma is now a free woman. She has left the Oudaya prison in Marrakech after serving a one-year prison sentence in the "Hamza Mon Bb" case, it has been learned. A sentence handed down by the Marrakech Court of Appeal, which had increased the initial eight-month sentence. She had also been fined 10,000 (…)

• Morocco Launches Tax Probe into Expat Real Estate Investments Amid Money Laundering Concerns
  12 April, by Prince

  Based on suspicions of money laundering from real estate professionals, the control services of the National Financial Intelligence Authority (ANRF) have launched investigations in the cities of Casablanca and Marrakech concerning certain real estate projects of the "office space" type.
  These investigations focus on investors, including Moroccans residing abroad (MRE), who have no specific training or experience in the real estate or construction sector, and whose ability to mobilize (…)

• Marrakech to Upgrade Road to Popular Agafay Desert Tourist Destination
  31 January, by Prince

  At a cost of 27 million dirhams, the project to develop the road leading to the Agafay desert will soon enter its active phase. The work, fully financed by the Marrakech-Safi Regional Council, should start in early February.
  The development of this 10-kilometer road will start in the coming days. The project includes public lighting and road signs, as well as the widening of the road leading to the Agafay commune. The feasibility studies for this project have been finalized, we are told. (…)

• Ryanair Continues Marrakech-Vatry Flights Despite Exit Threat, Leaving Travelers Uncertain
  9 April, by Sylvanus

  Although it had threatened to leave the Marne runways on March 31, the Irish low-cost airline Ryanair continues to operate flights between Marrakech and Vatry. But nothing indicates that it is completely giving up the idea of leaving.
  Travelers returning from Morocco testify. "In our misfortune, we were lucky," says Jennifer Jacquet to Le Parisien. In fact, we went through all this stress for nothing, everyone panicked but the flights are still assured. We showed up, without really (…)

• Marrakech Villa Raid: Gendarmes Bust Illegal Party Hub for Prostitution and Drugs
  28 September 2020, by Kamal

  A villa located in the suburbs of Marrakech was set up to host hot parties. Several revelers were arrested last Saturday during a raid by elements of the Royal Gendarmerie.
  It was 4 o’clock in the morning on Saturday when a patrol of gendarmes arrested about ten people in a villa, where all the ingredients of crime were present: prostitution, alcohol and drug consumption and pimping.
  According to the site Hespress, the owner of the villa, who managed to flee, organized clandestine (…)

• Prostitution Ring Busted in Marrakech: 7 Arrested in Villa Raid
  26 January 2020, by Sylvanus

  The elements of the Royal Gendarmerie of the Ouled Hassoun brigade in the Al Ouidane commune in the Marrakech region, arrested, in flagrante delicto of debauchery and prostitution, three Kuwaiti nationals and four young Moroccan women.
  The arrest of these three Kuwaitis, aged 30 to 40, and these Moroccan women, aged 24 to 28, took place during a raid on a villa set up for the purposes of debauchery and prostitution, reports Assabah. In the wake of this, the gendarmerie elements also (…)

• Ryanair Cuts Flights from Vatry Airport, Citing French Tax Hike
  13 March, by Said

  Vatry (Marne) airport will lose its two lines, including one to Morocco, operated by the Ryanair airline from March 29 next. The Irish airline justifies this decision by the increase in the solidarity tax on airline tickets in France, included in the 2025 budget.
  In a letter dated February 21 addressed to the airport management, Ryanair indicates that it has been "forced to review its capacities in France". The low-cost company explains that it will transfer part of its operations to (…)

• Ryanair Flight Lands at XCR Airport Despite Previous Cancellation Announcement
  3 April, by Prince

  While it had announced last month the cancellation of its lines to Vatry airport (Marne) from Porto (Portugal) and Marrakech (Morocco), Ryanair continued to serve XCR Airport.
  Travelers were greatly surprised to see a Ryanair plane land on the runways of XCR Airport this Wednesday, April 2, 2025. "We didn’t know if we were going to take off, because Ryanair wasn’t telling us anything. Until the day before yesterday (Monday), we didn’t know," says a passenger to France 3. "We tried to (…)

• Air Europa Expands North African Routes with Flights to Marrakech and Tunis
  4 April, by Said

  Air Europa is restoring its air links to North Africa by launching weekly flights between Madrid-Barajas airport and the cities of Marrakech and Tunis.
  In total, the company plans to offer more than 40,000 seats to these two destinations over the course of the year, in order to meet the growth in tourism demand observed for the spring and summer periods.
  The Marrakech service will start on April 6, 2025 and continue until the end of October 2025. Two weekly flights will be operated on (…)