16 January – A boat carrying migrants capsizes near Dakhla on its way to the Canary Islands, killing at least 50 people.[1]
February
26 February – The South Korean train manufacturing firm Hyundai Rotem wins a US$1.53 billion contract to supply advanced trains to the Moroccan national railway operator ONCF.[2]
April
10 April – The Moroccan social security agency announces that its databases had been breached in a cyberattack that blamed on suspected Algerian hackers, resulting in the leakage of significant amounts of personal information on Telegram.[3]
3 August – Four Moroccan truck drivers taken hostage by Islamic State – Sahel Province in Burkina Faso while driving from Morocco to Niger in January are released in Mali.[6]
12 August – About 100 people attempt to swim from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta; seven children reach the shore while the rest are intercepted and returned to Morocco.[7]
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