Taroudant

Articles

• Morocco Arrests Teacher for Online Threats Against Foreign Volunteers
  7 August 2019, by Bladi.net

  A primary school teacher was arrested on the evening of Monday, August 5, 2019, in Taroudant, by the National Brigade of the Judicial Police, in a case of advocacy of terrorist acts and incitement to commit them.
  The defendant posted a Facebook post in which he praised dangerous criminal acts against foreign tourists doing volunteer work in Morocco and incited them. Immediately, the National Brigade of the Judicial Police, in close coordination with the services of the Directorate General (…)

• Morocco Earthquake Death Toll Rises to 632, Hundreds Injured in Marrakech Region
  9 September 2023, by Said

  The toll of the earthquake that shook the Marrakech province and other regions of Morocco on Friday evening is worsening.
  According to a provisional toll announced this morning by the Ministry of the Interior, 632 people lost their lives in the provinces and prefectures of Al Haouz, Marrakech, Ouarzazate, Azilal, Chichaoua and Taroudant. The province of Al Haouz is the most affected with 290 deaths, followed by Taroudant where 190 people were killed.
  With a magnitude of 7 on the Richter (…)

• Moroccan Imam Arrested for Alleged Rape of Minor in Taroudant Region
  12 March 2019, by Said

  New case of sexual assault on a minor in Morocco with the arrest by the gendarmerie yesterday of an imam in the Taroudant region for the rape of a minor.
  Citing associative sources on the spot, the site le360 reports the arrest in Ighrem of a muezzin suspected of having sexually abused a minor girl, specifying that this case dates back to last month when the religious man had been caught in flagrante delicto with a girl in a premises where he stored wood.
  Married, the muezzin had tried, (…)

• Violent Assault on Teacher Shocks Moroccan School as Education Tensions Rise
  26 March 2019, by Amine

  A 20-year-old student has just violently assaulted a teacher, in the vicinity of Taroudant, simply because the latter asked him to calm down.
  At a time when contract teachers are organizing demonstrations (violently dispersed by the security forces) to demand their integration into the civil service, a teacher has been attacked, very violently, in Oulad Tayma, near Taroudant.
  This happened at the Abdellah Chefchaouni high school, last Monday. The teacher asks the student to calm down, (…)

• Moroccan Man Stabs Sister-in-Law and Niece in Violent Family Dispute
  7 April 2019, by Kamal

  The El guerdane region, in the province of Taroudant, was the scene of an abominable crime perpetrated by a man in his forties.
  This Friday afternoon, in the Hajjaj douar, a man in his forties stabbed his sister-in-law and her young daughter.
  Following marital conflicts, the man went to his wife’s home armed with a bladed weapon, with the firm intention of taking revenge. He finds his sister-in-law alone with her daughter on the spot. Under the influence of anger, he commits the (…)

• Fire at Moroccan Hammam Sends Women to Hospital, Sparks Safety Concerns
  9 June 2019, by Amine

  Several women had to be hospitalized urgently after a fire broke out in a popular hammam in the town of Ouled Teima near Taroudant. No serious injuries are to be deplored.
  At a time when hammams are being criticized for still using wood when other methods for heating, among others more ecological, are possible, in the Chrarda neighborhood, in Ouled Teima, two women were asphyxiated and were taken to the emergency room due to a massive fire that broke out on the night of June 4, according (…)

• Landslide Traps 14 in Van Near Marrakech, Rescue Efforts Underway
  25 July 2019, by Kamal

  14 people from Marrakech, on board a van, remained trapped under the rubble following a landslide on the national road leading to Taroudant.
  The incident occurred yesterday, Wednesday, July 24, 2019, in the evening, when a passenger transport vehicle was crushed by a sudden rock slide as it was heading towards the city of Taliouine.
  According to a close relative of the driver, relayed by the site kech24, 14 people disappeared under the rubble, while major efforts were made to extract (…)

• Belgian Volunteers Pave Road in Remote Moroccan Village, Improving Access
  5 August 2019, by Kamal

  About ten young Belgian women volunteered to pave a steep road in the city of Taroudant. Sacrificing their summer vacation for a humanitarian action, the young volunteers have attracted the sympathy of the inhabitants and Internet users online.
  The initiative of the Belgian nationals has been highly appreciated by the inhabitants and on social networks. They did not fail to praise this generous humanitarian action allowing the opening up of an isolated village in the Taroudant region. (…)

• Flood Victim’s Body Found 20km from Taroudant Football Field Tragedy
  3 September 2019, by Sylvanus

  The operations carried out by the elements of the Royal Gendarmerie, the auxiliary forces, the civil protection, the administrative authorities, the elected officials and the civil society, following the tragedy that occurred on the football field of Taroudant, are bearing fruit.
  Indeed, the body of one of the people swept away by the floods was found at the level of Oued Tlat in the Ifrni douar located 20 km from the scene of the tragedy, reports the MAP.
  For now, the body has been (…)

• Belgian NGO Cancels Morocco Volunteer Program Amid Shorts Controversy
  9 August 2019, by Bladi.net

  All subsequent camps will be canceled. This is the decision of the Belgian NGO, Bouworde, following the death threats the volunteer girls faced because of wearing shorts on a construction site in Taroudant.
  "On the advice of the Belgian authorities, it has been decided not to authorize a new group to go to Morocco in the current circumstances and given the great uproar around this affair which has found an echo in the press and social media," says a note published on the website of the (…)