Agadir

[ah-gah-deer]

noun

1. a seaport in SW Morocco: destroyed by earthquake in 1960; new town rebuilt S of original site.

Agadir

/ ˌæɡəˈdɪə /

noun

1. a port in SW Morocco, which became the centre of an international crisis (1911), when a gunboat arrived to protect German interests. Britain issued a strong warning to Germany but the French negotiated and war was averted. In 1960 the town was virtually destroyed by an earthquake, about 10 000 people being killed. Pop: 385 000 (2003)

Example Sentences

Citing judicial sources, the Le360 news site reported that the court of appeal in Agadir jailed the people for setting vehicles on fire, damaging property and blocking roads with barricades.

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The sources said the incidents took place in Ait Amira, near Agadir.

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The protests erupted in late September, after the deaths of eight pregnant women during Caesarean sections at a hospital in Agadir, in southern Morocco, sparked anger over conditions at public health facilities.

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Anger was initially fuelled by the deaths of eight pregnant women at a public hospital in Agadir.

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Anger had been growing, but what galvanised the movement was the death over a number of days in mid-September of eight women in a maternity ward of a hospital in the southern city of Agadir.

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