For the ninth consecutive night, hundreds of Moroccans demonstrated*
05/10/2025
For the ninth consecutive night, young Moroccans took to the streets in cities across the country on Sunday, demanding an end to corruption and a change of government. The demonstrations, organized by the GenZ 212 group on social networks and whose founders are unknown, have swept the once very stable North African country since September Protesters are calling for reforms in social services, particularly health and education, and expressing anger at social inequality.
According to live Moroccan media broadcasts, demonstrators gathered in the working class neighborhood of Fida in Casablanca and demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Aziz Akhnoush. Media also showed that similar slogans were chanted in the northern city of Titwan, where hundreds of people gathered.
In the capital Rabat, about 100 demonstrators gathered in front of the country’s parliament, shouting “the government is corrupt. “Reforms in the health and education sectors are very necessary. We know this will take time, but we have to start somewhere,” Imrani, 20, said at the demonstration.
GenZ 212, which has more than 180,000 members on the social networking site Discord, emphasizes the peaceful nature of its demonstrations and the rallies have so far been generally non-violent. But local reports said there was violence in several small towns after Wednesday’s demonstrations. That night, three people were killed by security forces in what authorities called a “legitimate defense” after protesters allegedly tried to attack a base in the village of Laqlia.
The protests follow rallies that erupted in several cities in mid-September after news broke that eight pregnant women had died at a public hospital in Agadir for childbirth surgery. Protesters see the deaths as evidence of shortcomings in the public health sector, which has sparked wider protests about social inequality.
* The Rudaw Digital