US EditionMorocco’s Gen Z protesters demand accountability and education reform
Generation Z protesters demand Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch's ouster and reforms amid widespread anger over corruption, healthcare, and education inequalities, with over 400 arrests reported.
- On Saturday, hundreds of Generation Z protesters resumed demonstrations across Morocco under Gen Z 212, demanding accountability, the ouster of Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch, and release of arrested protesters.
- Anger over education policy and healthcare failures propelled the movement after eight women died giving birth in a public hospital in Agadir, while state audits revealed teacher shortages and rising private university enrollment since 2000.
- Authorities reported violent clashes earlier this month as Gen Z 212 mobilised on Discord with more than 200,000 subscribers; local media outlets said over 400 arrests and courts in Agadir sentenced 17 defendants to 162 years.
- Officials pledged budget shifts toward healthcare and education, with Finance Minister Nadia Fettah Alaoui saying this year's government budget will prioritise these areas, while King Mohammed VI avoided mentioning the Gen Z 212 protests or 2030 FIFA World Cup stadiums.
- Protesters urged a boycott of soccer matches at Morocco's new stadiums to prevent December's Africa Cup of Nations from overshadowing their demands, signalling sustained pressure.
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The Moroccan government plans to invest nearly €13 billion in healthcare and education next year. This is in response to the demands of large Gen Z protests that have been ongoing since late September. The protesters were angry about the poor state of healthcare and education, and corruption in politics.
After the anger of the street, after Mohammed VI's speech before Parliament, the Akhannouch government is trying to take over. Political orientations, cascade announcements and calibrated gestures, as if to meet the demands of a youth that, however, is not called.
Los Angeles Times
Independent EspañolDetermined to prevent the next wave of fanfare surrounding the African Cup of Nations from overshadowing their demands, protesters in Morocco urged boycotting football matches in the country's new stadiums.
The movement that has triggered the largest social outburst in Morocco for two decades is the last link in a chain that has brought down governments in countries as disparate as Nepal, Peru or Madagascar in the last month. In them, children under the age of 30 are the majority. Under the common denominator of a digital protest that overshadows the emblems of the Japanese manga, thousands of young people born between the mid-1990s and 2010 – the …
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