Precariousness in northern Morocco would be the main cause of the irregular and massive departures of several young Moroccans, including minors, towards Ceuta , said Transparency Morocco, commenting on the wave of migration observed last May in the Spanish enclave.
Morocco has about 700,000 adult drug addicts, a large proportion of whom are young people. This is revealed in a report by the Special Commission on the Development Model (CSMD) on the use of cannabis in the kingdom where the prevalence of cannabis use is between 4 and 5%.
In Morocco, most households live with two or three, even four sources of income. This number is 2.7 in urban areas and 3.5 in rural areas.
Like all countries, Morocco has suffered the effects of the coronavirus crisis, with serious consequences on the lives of people and businesses, aggravating poverty and vulnerability throughout the national territory. The Directorate of Studies and Financial Forecasts (DEPF) of the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Administrative Reform has just released its activity report for the year 2020 on the consequences of the health crisis in the kingdom.
Urban households have a much higher income than rural households in Morocco. This is revealed by the latest survey by the High Commission for Planning (HCP) on "Household Incomes: Levels, Sources and Social Distribution".
In order to support widows through the direct aid program for widows, Morocco has granted nearly 111,000 people more than 2 billion dirhams.
"For his own good, don’t give him anything". This is the slogan under which the association Jood has been running since March 10, an awareness campaign against the begging to which children are subjected on the streets, markets and arteries of Moroccan cities.
In a report published on Monday, March 8, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Andalusian Association for Human Rights (APDHA) calls for the rights of thousands of female mules to be respected during this period of health crisis that has led to the closure of borders.
After receiving a prefectural letter ordering the evacuation of one of its centers, the president of the Ytto foundation for the housing and rehabilitation of women victims of violence has decided to observe an unlimited hunger strike. Najat Ikhich confirmed this information in a press release.
The number of houses threatening to collapse continues to increase in Marrakech , currently reaching nearly 2,000. Several people and associations are alerting the competent authorities to the seriousness of the phenomenon.
Due to the health crisis, Morocco’s guides are experiencing great precariousness. For more than ten months, the efforts of the associations representing this professional category of national tourism have been focused mainly on coordination with the authorities, to obtain the lump-sum allowance. This is slow in coming.
Faced with the persistence of social inequalities in these times of Covid-19, Oxfam Maroc makes the diagnosis and formulates several recommendations.