Moroccans have demonstrated over wages and the cost of living more than a hundred times this year alone. From Agadir [au sud] Flap [au nord]cleaning workers, engineers, health workers and retirees organized sit-ins to demand better salaries, their payment on time and action on consumer prices. “Everything is expensive and salaries haven’t changed much, except for teachers,” explains Moroccan journalist Mohamed Acheari.
The Education Ministry began paying part of the $140 monthly increase in April, four months late. [130 euros] which had been negotiated with the teachers’ unions.
If the last six years resemble a vast bread revolt, it is because the inflation of food prices has been brutal. It reached a peak of 32% in February 2023. Food, consumer prices and wages have given rise to at least 916 protests since 2019 – or fifteen per month on average.
This is very unusual for the country: there had only been 7 such protests in the three years preceding this period. Economic conditions are such that this phenomenon represents the new “normality”, specifies Acheari.
Inflationary riots
At least twelve other African countries have found themselves under pressure from citizens over the cost of living in recent years. In Kenya, the
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