Suffocated by a dizzying increase in expenses related to legal disputes, the Tangier council is requesting the Ministry of the Interior to include a provision of 80 million dirhams in the 2026 budget to cover these costs.
The Minister of the Interior, Abdelouafi Laftit, has just dispatched a commission from the territorial administration to control the urban planning sector in Meknes, after several scandals.
The provincial authorities of Midelt have ordered the temporary suspension of two caïds (local administrators). This administrative decision was made due to acts qualified as "serious professional misconduct".
Central audit commissions will be dispatched by the General Inspection of Territorial Administration (IGAT) in several local authorities spread across different provinces and regions of the kingdom in order to shed light on suspicions of tax fraud involving municipal presidents. They are said to have carried out serious manipulations in the local tax registers, in order to illegally exempt owners of sand and clay quarries that supply large brick and ceramic manufacturing plants, in clear and direct violation of the law.
In Morocco, a circular from the Minister of the Interior, published last year, firmly reminds of the rules governing the use of collective property and requires a comprehensive inventory of service vehicles parked in municipal garages, but the practice is deeply rooted.
Following field visits to several municipalities located on the outskirts of major cities, particularly Casablanca and Rabat, commissions from the General Inspectorate of Territorial Administration have identified serious irregularities related to the ongoing demolition operations of unauthorized constructions in the kingdom.
The proliferation of mentally ill people wandering in Moroccan cities and attacking citizens is worrying the Moroccan Network for the Defense of the Right to Health and the Right to Life (RMDDS), which calls for the implementation of a national plan to put an end to this phenomenon.
Fearing a similar scenario to the sumptuous wedding of the drug trafficker named Moussa in Nador, the services of the Ministry of the Interior in M’diq have prohibited the organization of a grandiose wedding in a villa near Tetouan. The family concerned, that of a well-known local notable, threatens to take legal action.
The development of the Bouregreg Valley requires the expropriation of several plots. Mohamed Yacoubi, Wali of the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region, has recently issued a decree in this regard.
Good news for authority agents in Morocco. Their salaries will see an increase of up to 2,000 additional dirhams as of this August 2025.
Following the discovery of a network of real estate dispossession, specialized in the illegal appropriation of land belonging to urban municipalities, and involving powerful developers and certain local elected officials, Abdelouafi Laftit, Minister of the Interior, has ordered in-depth investigations.
Henceforth, occupancy permits or certificates of compliance will only be issued after the complete completion of constructions. This is the decision of the Ministry of the Interior. The measure aims to fight against irregularities and preserve urban aesthetics.