
Morocco Unveils $2.7 Billion Airport Expansion Plan Ahead of 2030 World Cup
Morocco is banking on an ambitious plan to boost its airport capacity before the 2030 World Cup it will co-host with Spain and Portugal.

Morocco is banking on an ambitious plan to boost its airport capacity before the 2030 World Cup it will co-host with Spain and Portugal.

A tragedy struck Casablanca early this Wednesday morning. A semi-trailer violently hit the "Ibn Tachfine" tram station, causing the death of three people and injuring several other users.

Many Moroccans, especially those from the north of the kingdom - prefer to spend their year-end holidays abroad, particularly in Spain.

Spain is watching with a touch of concern the rise of Morocco in the port sector. Tanger Med, a true maritime giant, is becoming a formidable competitor for Spanish ports, particularly in the field of container transport.

Morocco has committed to deploying 5G on its territory before the 2030 FIFA World Cup, a requirement of FIFA. The government plans to cover 25% of the country by 2026, with a final target of 70%. However, the path seems long and fraught with obstacles.

In France, a nursing assistant of Moroccan origin working in a nursing home in the Hauts-de-Seine, is highlighting Moroccan cuisine to the point of winning a place as a finalist for the Île-de-France region and gaining popularity on social networks, especially on Instagram.

The toll of the food poisoning that occurred last Saturday during a wedding ceremony in Douar Al-Daijjat, in the commune of Moulay Abdellah in the province of El Jadida, has worsened.

The density of drilling carried out in Morocco has reached only four wells per 10,000 square kilometers, compared to the global average of 1,000 wells for the same area. This is revealed in an annual report by the Court of Auditors.

Faced with the drop in olive production and the sharp rise in the price of olive oil, Morocco is turning to Spain, Tunisia, Italy and France to import virgin and extra virgin olive oil.

Abdellatif Loudiyi, the delegate minister in charge of national defense administration, assured an Indian delegation recently arrived in Rabat for the India-Morocco seminar on the defense industry focused on opportunities in the defense sector of the kingdom’s support for its expansion project in Africa.

On the drawing board for several years, the project to build a tunnel connecting Punta Paloma, in Spain, to Punta Malabata, in Morocco, will soon take shape. The construction site must be delivered before the World Cup that Morocco will co-host with Spain and Portugal in 2030.{}

Complying with the instructions of the Ministry of the Interior, the local authorities of Casablanca have launched a vast and intense clean-up campaign to put an end to the anarchic constructions that are proliferating on the outskirts of the city.