After Prime Minister, Saadeddine El Othmani, visited last weekend the Eastern region, the inhabitants of Jerada are still to decide on the continuity of their own Hirak movement.
In a few hours, the inhabitants of Jerada will have to decide whether they want to continue or stop rallying for their demands. On Wednesday, the Minister of Energy and Mines asked the Hirak representatives in the city to turn the page of protests in exchange for a number of promises.
A few days after the emergence of social unrest in the city of Jerada, the Minister of Energy, Mining and Sustainable Development revealed the amount of money spent on the province during 14 years. The numbers made public by the Minister were meanwhile backed by others indicated by Driss Benhima, who has headed the ministry when the coal mine closed. Aside from official numbers, were these miners compensated as promised ?
Coal mining has been the activity that kept Jerada’s miners busy since 1927. Extracting anthracite, a type of coal that contains relatively pure carbon, these workers were exposed to hard conditions that had a huge impact on their future lives. Alongside the economic and demographic aspects thoroughly explained in one of Yabiladi’s previous articles, and which have affected the lives of these miners, they had to worry about the potential health issues associated with mining
Unable to increase production, Charbonnage du Maroc, assigned the extraction of coal in the city of Jerada, closed its doors leaving behind hundreds of unemployed miners. To survive, some of them left and others stayed only to struggle with the economic hindrances the city faces. Jerada, Morocco’s former coal-mining hub and the economic and demographic challenges behind the closure of mines.
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