The White Dove prepares for its transformation

After Tangier, Marrakech and Salé, it is now Tetouan's turn to be equipped with an integrated, balanced and inclusive development programme, allowing it to rise to the level of cities worthy of the name. This is thanks to the launch by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, on Saturday, of the integrated economic and urban development programme for the city (2014-2018), endowed with a budget of nearly 5.5 billion dirhams (MAD). It is a five-year programme, which proceeds from a systematic participatory approach that has involved the various actors of the city. It aims to make Tetouan an attractive and residential city for services, people and capital. It thus aspires to meet the urban, economic, social and environmental challenges facing this agglomeration in the North of the Kingdom. Thus, on the urban level, this flagship programme notably provides for the strengthening of internal roads and r…