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Following the weather of exceptional intensity that the Kingdom has experienced over the past two months, and more particularly in the Gharb plain and Lukkos, the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, has given his High Instructions to the government to deploy a vast program of support to the affected populations, and for the regulatory measures required in such circumstances.
The Moroccan government has, on High Royal Instructions, announced a vast program of aid and support, with an estimated budget of three billion dirhams (nearly 300 million dollars), in favor of families and populations affected by the severe weather in the last two months in the Kingdom, especially in the north.
This program comes on King Mohammed VI’s High Instructions, “in the wake of the weather of exceptional intensity that the Kingdom has experienced in the last two months, and more particularly in the Gharb plain and the Lukkos,” said an official statement issued Thursday, February 12 in Rabat.
King Mohammed VI, “faithful to his constant concern for his subjects and Concerned about the preservation of their safety and the improvement of their living conditions, gave his High Instructions to the government in order to deploy a vast program of assistance and support for the families and populations affected and to stop the necessary regulatory measures in such circumstances,” the statement said.
In this capacity, it added, the Head of Government “made an order declaring this bad weather as a catastrophic event and the municipalities of the four provinces (Larache, Kénitra, Sidi Kacem and Sidi Slimane), the most impacted, disaster areas,” the government statement said.
According to the same source, it has, in this context, set up an aid and support program, with an estimated budget of three billion dirhams (almost 300 million dollars), developed on the basis of a rigorous and thorough diagnosis of the situation on the ground, as well as an accurate assessment of the economic and social repercussions of the bad weather.
The program covers aid for the relocation, loss of income, rehabilitation of housing and small businesses impacted, as well as for the reconstruction of collapsed housing, for a total of 75 million dollars. It consists of in-kind aid and for the strengthening of emergency interventions on the ground, in order to meet the basic and immediate needs of the population, up to 23 million dollars, adds the same source.
Aid will also be provided to farmers and pastoralists for 30 million dollars, according to the statement that investments are also being made for the rehabilitation of road and hydro-agricultural infrastructure and for the rehabilitation of basic networks, amounting to 170 million dollars, explains the same source.
The King also gave his High Instructions to the government “so that this program is carried out with exemplarity, speed and sense of responsibility allowing citizens of the disaster areas to recover, as soon as possible, normal living conditions,” the statement said.
To remember that the exceptional weather experienced by the Kingdom caused the flooding of more than 110,000 hectares and led to the displacement of nearly 188,000 people in the provinces of Larache, Kénitra, Sidi Kacem and Sidi Slimane.
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