Head of Moroccan Government Aziz Akhannouch approved a support package for the victims of the forest fires in the north of the country during the past few days.
The tragic natural incidents prompted the government to respond with an emergency MAD 290 million aid package, allocated to the implementation of its various requirements.
Akhannouch supervised the signing of the agreement, which aims to “support those affected to rehabilitate and restore their homes, mitigate the impacts on livestock breeders and beekeepers in the concerned areas, carry out forestry operations, rehabilitate damaged fruit trees, and implement integrated economic development projects in the affected areas.”
According to a statement from the Akhannouch cabinet, “the agreement includes measures, in the short and medium term, to support the population in the rehabilitation and restoration of damaged houses, which were counted by the public authorities.”
“Afforestation in forests destroyed by fires will be conducted,” according to the same source, which also highlighted plans to “rehabilitate damaged fruit trees through reforestation, which account for approximately 9330 hectares.”
The agreement also aims to strengthen new fire prevention and control methods, and to mitigate the harmful effects of fires on livestock breeders and beekeepers in the affected areas, while implementing integrated economic development projects in the affected areas.
In addition to creating an additional 1,000 job opportunities in the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, for the benefit of the affected people and their family members to work within the framework of the “Awrach” program.
Akhannouch called on “the various stakeholders to immediately implement emergency measures in order to mitigate the impact of fires on agricultural activity and forests, and to support the population affected by the fires that broke out during the month of July this year.”
The agreement was signed by Nadia Fattah, Minister of Economy and Finance, Fatima Zahra Al-Mansouri, Minister of National Territory Preparation, Urbanization, Housing and City Policy, Mohamed Seddiqi, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Rural Development, Water and Forests, and Younes Skouri, Minister of Economic Integration and Small Enterprises.
The Wali of Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima Region, Said Zniber, Wali of Fez-Meknes Region, Omar Mourou, Chairman of the Council of Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima Region, and Abd El Wahed Al Ansari, Chairman of the Council of Fez-Meknes Region also signed the agreement.
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