Two women died overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday after their car fell into the Port of Algeciras. The four occupants had just passed through the police checkpoint and were preparing to board a ferry bound for Tangier.
Three figures in Antwerp’s drug trade, arrested in June in Marrakech, were taken out of prison on Thursday morning to appear in court without prior notice. A few hours later, the court had already delivered its verdict: 5, 8 and 9 years in prison, according to the Belgian press.
The price of diesel continues to rise in Morocco. Since July 16, four successive increases have added around 2.40 dirhams per litre, with the fuel now selling for about 15 dirhams at service stations.
SGTM enters the second half of 2026 with 34.8 billion dirhams in orders. The Moroccan construction giant is working in particular on the ports of Dakhla Atlantique, Nador West Med and Tanger Med, as well as on the future terminal at Casablanca’s Mohammed V Airport.
The Landes prefecture had refused to regularize a Moroccan man who had been living in France since 2015 and had issued him an OQTF. Three years later, the administrative court of appeal overturned those decisions and ordered the issuance of a “private and family life” residence permit.
Morocco is no longer relying on a single intermediary to defend its interests in the United States. Three American firms now work simultaneously for Rabat, at a combined cost of 160,000 dollars per month, with missions ranging from Congress to digital communications.
A 23-year-old Moroccan man has just been sentenced to one year in prison after a series of thefts from cars in Seine-et-Marne. Upon his release from prison, another sentence awaits him: he will be banned from returning to France for ten years.
Buyers have returned to Tangier in force. In the second quarter of 2026, house sales surged by 60.3% and land sales by 54.9%. Land prices simultaneously rose by 7.3%, propelling the city to the top for price increases.
Starting September 10, Nador will join a weekly container service linking Morocco to Northern Europe. Via the Portuguese port of Setúbal, exporters will be able to reach Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg, Liverpool and Dublin.
At least eight Moroccan workers allegedly paid between 10,000 and 15,000 euros to obtain a job and a residence permit in France. Four suspects were due to stand trial in Tarbes, but the court requested a more thorough investigation.
The ONCF has launched a new 180-million-dirham construction project around Casablanca’s Mohammed-V Airport. Railway bridges, road widening and hydraulic structures are to be completed in just seven months.
The approximately 300 villas and cabins at Bouznika Plage will ultimately not have to be evacuated before September 15. The formal notices sent to occupants have been suspended pending a decision by the head of government.