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Ongoing hardship for Moroccan quake survivors still struggling to rebuild

Moroccan Royal Armed Forces evacuate a body from a house destroyed in an earthquake in the mountain village of Tafeghaghte, southwest of Marrakesh, on 9 September 2023. © AFP - FADEL SENNA

One year after a devastating earthquake struck Morocco's Atlas Mountains, villagers remain in makeshift tents, with the government yet to fulfil its promise to rehouse survivors. The 6.8-magnitude quake, which hit on 8 September 2023, killed nearly 3,000 people and left over two million homeless.

In Tiniskt, a village perched in the mountains about 70 kilometres southwest of Marrakesh, 45 people lost their lives.

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