A blind protester died after falling off the roof of Morocco’s Ministry of Family, Solidarity, Equality and Social Development on Sunday. The deceased was among many others who broke in the Ministry’s building to protest against unemployment.
On October the 13th, 2017, King Mohammed VI urged the government to work on a new strategy for the sake of the youth. Ten months later, he addresses the same topic in a royal speech.
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.