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The Maghreb region of North Africa comprising of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mauritania and Libya accounts for 15% of the global date production. The region has tried to avoid attack of the red palm weevil (RPW) Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) until December, 2008, when RPW was reported from the Tangier region in Northern Morocco. This was remarkable considering that the region is in the vicinity of Egypt in Africa and Spain in Europe where RPW was reported in the mid 1990s. In addition to date palm, the region has several Canary Island Palms, one of the most preferred hosts of the weevil. Previous experiences from the Gulf region in the Middle-East and the Mediterranean countries have shown that RPW had spread rapidly through infested planting material transported mainly for ornamental purposes and date palm farming. RPW was detected from Morocco in December, 2008, in Libya (May, 2009) and in Tunisia (December, 2011) and is a potential threat to both date palm and Canary Island Palm in these countries. This paper describes its status as well as proposes a strategy to combat the threat of the spread of RPW in the region.