Morocco Floods: Evacuated Residents Return as €276 Million Aid Plan Begins

Starting this Sunday, residents of 17 neighborhoods in Ksar El Kébir, a city of 120,000 inhabitants that was almost entirely evacuated, will be able to return home. The Larache prefecture has arranged free train and bus services to manage this return “in stages,” while checkpoints are filtering access to ensure families’ safety.

The human and material toll is heavy in the four provinces declared “disaster areas.” Since the beginning of February, severe weather has caused the deaths of four people in Tétouan and four others in Larache following landslides. In total, nearly 188,000 people have had to leave their homes as rising waters submerged 110,000 hectares of land.

Rebuilding the North: a €276 million fund for those affected

The government has released approximately €276 million to address the emergency. This financial package is intended to provide direct support to households and farmers, as well as repair basic infrastructure. On the ground, Interior Ministry services are working to restore access to drinking water, electricity and telecommunications, which were severely damaged by the floods.

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This weather onslaught ends seven years of intense drought, with record rainfall reaching triple the levels recorded in 2025. While these rains are replenishing water reserves, their intensity has forced authorities to remain vigilant. The schedule for the next phases of the return will depend on “developments on the ground” and the effective decline in reservoir levels.