Skip to playerSkip to main content
  • 6 days ago
More than 150,000 people evacuated in northern Morocco due to heavy rains and floods

Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated in northern Morocco due to heavy rains and flooding.

READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2026/02/09/more-than-150000-people-evacuated-in-northern-morocco-due-to-heavy-rains-and-floods

Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.

Africanews is available in English and French.
Website : www.africanews.com
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/
Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

Category

🗞
News
Transcript
00:01Tens of thousands of people forced from their homes in northern Morocco
00:05are taking shelter at this makeshift camp near Kenitra,
00:09some 50 kilometres north of Rabat.
00:12Over the last week, more than 150,000 people have been evacuated
00:17as heavy rains and flooding battered the region.
00:21Four people have died and one is still missing.
00:25We are very afraid, especially for our children,
00:30afraid that something might happen to them.
00:34Ali El Aouni said the water got up to a metre and a half in his village
00:40before he fled with his family.
00:44We're afraid to return, fearing that the water will come back.
00:48Our eldest son is still there and is communicating with us by phone,
00:52telling us that the water continues to rise.
00:55We're unable to return now.
00:58Floodwaters inundated roads and farmland in several areas,
01:03leaving residents stranded on rooftops
01:06before being rescued by small boats or helicopters.
01:11In accordance with the instructions of His Majesty King Mohammed,
01:16may God assist and protect him, a gradual evacuation of families was carried out,
01:21affecting a total of 38,738 people, representing 7,847 families.
01:32In December, 37 people were killed in sudden floods in Safi,
01:37in Morocco's deadliest weather-related disaster in the last decade.
01:41Severe weather and flooding in Algeria and Tunisia has killed at least seven people in recent weeks.
01:48Back to the Past hikingboats andائes
01:52Are you sure of the intentions that you raised,
01:55as for the past few years at least 20,000 years?
01:56In the climate of kind oftan and art in across andend,
01:58and into Taliesin's someplace old in the next year?
02:00What's the same California area?
02:01Are you sure of, what does it mean?
02:02If nothing matter is that we should Amelia enturança,
02:03or if we should be living in a fitsdig Spo Putting Your Detst anni setup here?
02:05Or России or is that you must be living in this past few days.
02:07Oh, it can be a great unerancy system for our human resources to do with unless
02:10point of our human resources,
02:12The Mental Task Force is everything into ourakra yore.
02:13Absolutely not to consider this as normal and for our rights.
02:14I want you to find your name for lockums inックots
Comments

Recommended