peration Marhaba closed its arrangements on September 15, after more than three months of mobilization. The Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity, which supervises it, puts at 4,137,594 the number of Moroccans living abroad welcomed this year, 1.8% more than at the previous edition, according to MAP. The busiest days would approach 80,000 arrivals and pass 87,000 departures, with no notable congestion at the crossing points. To hold the return phase, the Foundation says it introduced firm tickets, laid out regulation zones, took charge of the passengers of coaches transiting through Tanger Med and Algeciras, and paired all of it with awareness campaigns.
Behind those figures stands a human arrangement the Foundation sets out: a central coordination office, one thousand one hundred and thirty-four social workers, two hundred and thirty-six doctors, paramedics and temporary staff, and twenty-six reception spaces open day and night, six of them installed in the European ports of Genoa, Sete, Marseille, Motril, Almeria and Algeciras. Downstream of the queues, assistance would reach 66,993 people, 14,089 of them on administrative, customs or legal steps and 8,495 on care, first aid or hospitalization. The summer passage of Moroccans of the world has turned, in a quarter of a century, into a seasonal administration in its own right; and it will be judged next summer on what it absorbs without anyone mentioning it.
Photo: Jobt1962, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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