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Morocco earthquake 2023

October 2023

  • Morocco's Earthquake Leaves Villages With Dim Hopes Of Rebuilding<br>OUIRGANE, MOROCCO - SEPTEMBER 16: A boy carries a box of intact dishware found in the rubble in the village of Imzalin on September 16, 2023 in Ouirgane, Morocco. Nearly 3,000 people were killed when a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck south of Marrakech on September 8th. (Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

    Observer business agenda
    IMF clings to a hopeful agenda as crisis follows crisis

    At the fund’s annual meeting this week in Morocco, ambitions for climate and debt relief may be overwhelmed by events – again
  • A building leans over after partially collapsing in Talat N’Yaaqoub, where Education for All Morocco runs a boarding house for 52 students

    ‘We need to start again’: Morocco’s earthquake puts girls’ education at risk

    Charity that runs boarding houses to help girls in remote Atlas mountains get to school scrambles to find out what facilities remain
  • Search and rescue operations continue in Derna after Storm Daniel

    Libya and Morocco: two very different responses to catastrophe

    The aftermath of an earthquake in Morocco and flooding in Libya has shown up the state of the two nations
  • Kasbah du Toubkal

    After Morocco’s devastating earthquake, the tourism industry rallies round

    Travel and tour operators are getting involved in the country’s relief effort, knowing how vital tourism is to its economy
  • Peter Beaumont

    Opinion
    The west is right to offer Morocco help – but disaster-hit countries are not obliged to accept it

    Peter Beaumont
    Morocco is dealing with an earthquake on its own terms, and the criticism it has faced has been tinged with a white saviour mentality, says Guardian writer Peter Beaumont
  • Aid workers and aid parcels

    Morocco earthquake: Macron tries to soothe tensions after frosty response to offer of aid

  • A woman walks past destroyed houses after an earthquake in the mountain village of Tafeghaghte, southwest of the city of Marrakesh, on September 9, 2023. Morocco's deadliest earthquake in decades has killed more than 2,000 people, authorities said on September 9, as troops and emergency services scrambled to reach remote mountain villages where casualties are still feared trapped. (Photo by FADEL SENNA / AFP) (Photo by FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images)

    Today in Focus
    A day in the ruins of Morocco’s earthquake

  • Humanitarian aid is collected in Talat N'Yaaqoub.

    Ordinary Moroccans bring aid to quake-hit villages amid criticism of official response

    Thousands of ordinary citizens are travelling from all over the country to bring aid to survivors of the earthquake
  • People gathered near earthen walls against a mountainous backdrop in Ighil Ntalghoumt, south of Marrakech.

    Wedding party saves residents of Moroccan village from quake

    Outdoor event hosted by bride’s family meant no one was trapped when buildings collapsed
  • A rescue worker searches for suvivors in the rubble of earthquake-damaged houses

    Morocco earthquake: hope fades of finding survivors in rubble

    Complicated rescue effort continues as questions remain about king and government’s response
  • A woman tries to recover some of her possessions from her home in the village of Tafeghaghte.

    Morocco quake survivors call for more help after entire villages destroyed

  • A boy talks on his phone in his destroyed house in the village of Tafegheghte

    Morocco earthquake: death toll passes 2,800 as foreign aid teams fly in

  • A man walks in the rubble of a damaged building after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Tahannaout, Morocco.

    A visual guide to the Moroccan earthquake

  • A man searches for his belongings in the remains of his house in Amizmiz, a city about 35 miles from the earthquake epicentre in Morocco.

    Morocco earthquake: France ‘ready to help’ despite frosty diplomatic relations

  • A man walks in the rubble of collapsed buildings in Moulay Brahim, Morocco.

    ‘My neighbours dug for me with bare hands’: Morocco earthquake survivors grapple with loss and chaos all around

  • One man hugs another surrounded by men with shovels digging graves near Marrakech, Morocco

    Morocco earthquake: mourning begins as rescue continues with death toll over 2,000

  • A group of men sets up a makeshift camp in Moulay Brahim, south of Marrakech, Morocco

    Morocco leads earthquake rescue with many nations offering support

  • Rubble in Marrakech

    Morocco earthquake: at least 2,000 dead and thousands more injured

  • A woman reacts in front of her earthquake-damaged house in the old city in Marrakech.

    The aftermath of the earthquake in Morocco – in pictures

  • People on streets

    ‘The streets were jammed’: fear and confusion after Morocco earthquake

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