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 Wali of Public Security in Marrakech announced the upcoming installation of surveillance cameras in the streets of the ochre city in order to strengthen security, in the perspective of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2030 World Cup.
Ryanair has sold tickets departing from Dole-Jura airport, to Morocco, while the airport will be under construction between May 26 and July 11. Passengers are wondering if they will be able to travel.
In Marrakech, a joint commission has been set up to control furnished apartments.
A Moroccan city has big ambitions, is hosting many projects and can rival Marrakech, a city considered the best tourist destination in Morocco.
A call for tenders has just been launched for the acquisition of 1,317 buses for urban and interurban transport in six major Moroccan cities. The total cost of the contract is estimated at 3.2 billion dirhams.
The lack of public toilets led some participants in the Marrakech International Marathon organized on Sunday to relieve themselves in the open. Images of this act, widely shared on social media, have outraged local and regional authorities as well as associations.
Member of Parliament Aziza Boujrida, from the Haraki group, has questioned the Interior Minister, Abdelouafi Laftit, about the ban on shisha consumption in public places for tourists in the city of Marrakech.
The Moroccan Observatory for Consumer Protection has filed a complaint with the authorities in Marrakech concerning the proliferation of informal bread and pastry shops, real "mobile bakeries".
A clandestine factory producing adulterated olive oil was dismantled this week in the 9th district of Marrakech, near the Issil wadi. Two individuals suspected of being involved in this fraud were arrested.
An emergency program for the reconstruction of the hotels in Marrakech damaged by the Al Haouz earthquake was at the heart of a meeting of the Regional Steering Committee chaired by Farid Chourak, Wali of the Marrakech-Safi region. The project to enhance the medina was also discussed.
A new form of fraud is currently rampant in Marrakech. Unlicensed tourist guides have found a trick to escape the authorities. They brandish fake medical certificates to avoid arrest.