Morocco: six months after the earthquake, what is the situation for the victims?. Of the 60,000 households hit by the earthquake on the night of September 8 to 9, 2023, the Moroccan government assured at the end of January that it had launched monthly compensation for more than 57,000 of them.
In many villages around Marrakech and in the High Atlas Mountains, residents are still affected, and are sleeping in makeshift shelters. Tents or prefabs provided by the State or associations, tens of thousands of people spent the winter in the cold and humidity.