Tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes in northern Morocco due to heavy rains and flooding. Selami is among more than 150,000 people to have been evacuated over the past week as heavy rainfall battered provinces in Morocco's north. The floods have killed four people so far, including a two-year-old child, with one person still missing as of Sunday, Moroccan authorities said. Some residents, including children and elderly people, were seen stranded on rooftops before being rescued, at times with small boats. Last December 37 people were killed in sudden floods in Safi, in Morocco's deadliest weather-related disaster in the past decade.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 09, 2026 08:48 UTC