Ghafsai
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Ghafsai ({{langx|ar|غفساي}}) is a town in Taounate Province, in the region of Fas-Meknas, Morocco. It is located in the Rif Mountains. As of the 2014 Moroccan census, Ghafsai has 6,361 inhabitants.
History
After being controlled by the Kingdom of Morocco in the previous decades, Ghafsai was within Spanish Morocco from 1912 to 1921,{{cite journal |title=Treaty Between France and Spain Regarding Morocco |journal=The American Journal of International Law |volume=7 |number=2 [Supplement: Official Documents] |year=1913 |pages=81–99 |doi=10.2307/2212275}} and then the Rif Republic ruled over the Rif region, including Ghafsai, from 1921 to 1926.{{cite book|last1=Day|first1=Richard B.|last2=Gaido|first2=Daniel|title=Discovering Imperialism: Social Democracy to World War I|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9004201564|page=549|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kkQhLpqk1XEC&pg=PA549|accessdate=14 September 2016|language=en}} In the Rif War of the 1920s Interwar Period, Ghafsai was within the warzone.{{cite book|author=Dirk Sasse|title=Franzosen, Briten und Deutsche im Rifkrieg 1921-1926: Spekulanten und Sympathisanten, Deserteure und Hasardeure im Dienste Abdelkrims|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-2DpBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA129|date=1 January 2006|publisher=De Gruyter|isbn=978-3-486-84018-6|page=129}} After the Rif Republic lost the war, the area returned under Spanish control.Douglas Porch, "Spain's African Nightmare," MHQ: Quarterly Journal of Military History (2006) 18#2 pp 28–37.
During the Ifni War in the 1950s, the Moroccan Army of Liberation used Ghafsai as one of their centers of operations against the Spanish and French.{{cite book|author=Douglas Elliott Ashford|title=Political Change in Morocco|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OUHWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA201|date=8 December 2015|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-7850-5|page=201}}
In January 2016, 18 urban development projects spanning over {{convert|22|ha}} of land were announced to be in progress. Grants for a house relocation project totaled 8.63 million Moroccan dirhams, while the cost for a new sewage system was estimated at 47 million dirhams. Construction of a shopping center, a school, a sports complex, car parking area, economic development area, parks, a landfill, and an electrical network overhaul are also planned. In total, all of these new projects are estimated to add up to the cost of over 300 million dirhams.{{cite web|title=Plus de 300 MDH pour l’aménagement urbain de la ville de Ghafsaï|url=http://www.medias24.com/Quoi-de-neuf/161388-Plus-de-300-MDH-pour-l-amenagement-urbain-de-la-ville-de-Ghafsai.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20161213182322/http://www.medias24.com/Quoi-de-neuf/161388-Plus-de-300-MDH-pour-l-amenagement-urbain-de-la-ville-de-Ghafsai.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 13, 2016|website=Medias24 - Site d'information|accessdate=22 October 2016}}
Geography
Ghafsai is located in the Rif Mountains in the northern part of Morocco.
Economy
Ghafsai is one of the major producers of cannabis in Morocco,{{cite book|author=Raphael Chijioke Njoku|title=Culture and Customs of Morocco|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JRV1ZTDoSsUC&pg=PA2|year=2006|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-33289-0|page=2}} but in recent years other agriculture and beekeeping ventures have developed also.{{cite web|title=Mieux que le bio, l'agroécologie|url=http://telquel.ma/2014/07/16/mieux-bio-agroecologie_1409721|website=Telquel.ma|accessdate=22 October 2016|date=16 July 2014|archive-date=23 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161023052427/http://telquel.ma/2014/07/16/mieux-bio-agroecologie_1409721|url-status=dead}} Faba beans and barley are also produced in Ghafsai.{{cite book|title=Crop Genetic Diversity to Reduce Pests and Disease On-farm|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4zangizS_sIC&pg=PT36|year=2006|publisher=Bioversity International|isbn=978-92-9043-726-0|page=36}}