The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports that nearly one-third of young women in rural Morocco are neither in school, employed, nor enrolled in training programs (NEET). While Morocco's agricultural system continues to grow, improvements in road infrastructure have helped enhance access to education.
On the morning of Wednesday, July 9, residents of Aït Bouguemez launched a peaceful protest march toward the Azilal provincial headquarters and the Beni Mellal-Khenifra regional administration. They are demanding long-overdue basic development rights, denouncing what they describe as the region’s «systematic marginalization» in the heart of the High Atlas Mountains.