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Al Jazeera
Environment
Simon Speakman Cordall

Six months after the earthquake, Morocco’s Atlas villagers still in tents

A small child sits outside a tent in Asni, the High Atlas Mountains, Morocco, on February 23, 2024 [Simon Speakman Cordall/Al Jazeera]

Atlas Mountains, Morocco – Abdelatif Haddad works on his truck against the backdrop of a cluster of tents where his entire village of Tagadirt is now forced to live, in the shadow of Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains as a winter sun lowers over the valley.

They have been living like this since a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck the region six months ago in September and levelled their village which lay right there, deep in the hollow of the Ourika Valley.

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