(Bloomberg) -- Morocco’s capital Rabat gleams with new roads, restored buildings, buzzing cafés and its immaculate Andalusian Gardens. Yet across the river, the gloss quickly comes off King Mohammed VI’s showpiece city.

The adjacent commuter town of Sale is full of rutted roads, dilapidated housing and crime. A hotbed for activists over the years, it erupted again this week as young protesters in the densely populated neighborhood of Al-Amal smashed police cars, vandalized banks and set properties ablaze. They were met with a brutal crackdown by the authorities.

While Europeans and Americans are showing their frustration by choosing more extreme politics, Moroccans joined a surge in Gen Z demonstrations in Africa and Asia against aging leaders, corruption, joblessness, income disparities

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