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Recently, according to Moroccan Minister of the Interior Abdelouafi Laftit, the government will approve 116 public land projects this year.
Laftit was speaking at a presentation on a draft sectoral budget of the Ministry of the Interior at the House of Representatives.
Communal land, Laftit said, is a lever for development not only for the rights holders, but also for the state, considering the land's undeniable role in economic and social development and investment promotion.
The minister indicated that the interior ministry is constantly taking measures to identify and ensure the registration of communal lands for management and development.
The focus is primarily to identify and register land until land titles are established.
An estimated 15 million hectares in Morocco are communal lands.
Laftit explained that the government has identified 450 communes to be titled on an overall area of 336,664 hectares.
Laftit noted that the interior ministry’s efforts are currently focused on speeding up the pace of land titling, in coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture.