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  • Deadly Collision in Morocco: 14 Killed, 30 Injured in Bus-Truck Crash
    3 April 2019, by Amine

    It was a terrible accident that occurred today in the Moulay Bouselham region, with a head-on collision between a bus carrying agricultural workers and a truck carrying heavy equipment.
    A truck carrying construction equipment is said to have hit a bus carrying agricultural workers head-on. Several deaths have already been recorded.
    Thus, we are talking about 14 deaths and about thirty injured. The initial report only mentioned 8 people killed.
    The local authorities as well as the (…)

  • Moroccan Army Scandal: 12 Soldiers Arrested for Aiding Drug Export Operation
    11 January 2019, by Said

    A case that stains the Moroccan army. Twelve soldiers were arrested for turning a blind eye to a drug export operation in Moulay Bousselham, in northern Morocco.
    The facts are reported by the newspaper Al Akhbar, which indicates that the twelve soldiers were presented this week to the public prosecutor’s office in Souk Larbaâ for having facilitated the departure of several tons of drugs via the beach of Moulay Bousselham.
    Still according to the daily, last Sunday, traffickers loaded (…)

  • Morocco’s King Mohammed VI to Cover Funeral Costs for Moulay Bousselham Crash Victims
    4 April 2019, by Said

    King Mohammed VI has decided to fully cover the funeral and burial expenses of the victims of the accident that occurred yesterday morning near the town of Moulay Bousselham.
    Contrary to what was initially announced, the death toll is not 14 people but 9 people. As for the injured, the figures are now set at around thirty, with 9 in critical condition. These details come from the Minister of Health in a statement to the press.
    Anas Doukkali also said that all the injured have been (…)

  • Missing Moroccan Teen Found Safe, Abduction Claims Unfounded
    8 July 2019, by Said

    A 18-year-old girl reported missing since Friday, July 5, has been found safe and sound. The police are investigating and even speak of the denunciation of a fictitious crime.
    A statement from the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN), published on Twitter, indicates that "the 18-year-old girl, reported missing by her family, under ambiguous conditions, on July 5, was found on Sunday evening in Larache". She was found near a supermarket and does not seem to have been kidnapped, (…)

  • Moroccan Drug Trafficker Arrested for Violent Rape and Narcotics Charges
    19 April 2020, by Sylvanus

    Elements of the Royal Gendarmerie of Moulay Bousselham (Souk El Arba du Gharb) brought, on Tuesday, April 15, before the Attorney General of the King near the Court of Appeal of Kenitra, a drug trafficker. He is being prosecuted for rape with violence on a 26-year-old married woman, and for attempted international drug trafficking.
    A 26-year-old married woman had gone last Sunday to the gendarmerie brigade to file a complaint against an individual who would have raped her at her home in (…)

  • Family Feud Turns Deadly: Moroccan Man Lynched Over Land Dispute
    23 May 2020, by Sylvanus

    Members of a family killed one of their cousins by stoning him for agricultural land belonging to someone else. They blamed the victim for having helped a landowner legally recover a farmland on which they were growing crops.
    The Royal Gendarmerie brought four people who participated in the lynching of the quinquagenarian before the prosecutor of the king near the court of appeal of Kénitra, reports Assabah. Two other suspects involved in this homicide are still on the run.
    Three months (…)

  • Moroccan Blue Lagoon Ecosystem at Risk as Government Launches Controversial Rehabilitation Project
    21 September 2020, by Jérôme

    The Blue Lagoon (Merja Zerga) of Moulay Bousselham is the subject of a "rehabilitation" operation with the opening of an estuary, even though it is protected by an international convention that Morocco has ratified and is no longer part of the public maritime domain.
    More than 20,000 people derive their income from this nature reserve through fishing, agriculture, tourism and livestock farming. It is an ecological area protected by the Ramsar Convention for the protection of wetlands of (…)

  • Former Moroccan MP’s Speeding SUV Kills Two Electricians in Fatal Crash
    4 February 2021, by Sylvanus

    As he was returning to Moulay Bousselham, his hometown, from Kénitra on Sunday, January 31, a former MP to the House of Advisors hit and killed two electricians on a motorcycle. Excessive speed would be the cause of the tragedy.
    The driver of the 4X4 was driving at high speed on the road leading to Moulay Bousselham. Suddenly, the vehicle’s brakes failed. Two electricians riding a motorcycle to a douar in the Souk El Arbaa region of Gharb were violently hit, reports Al Akhbar. The two men (…)