Three years after a catastrophic earthquake reshaped the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, the work of reconstruction reveals something older and more persistent than collapsed stone: the uneven reach of the state toward its own people. While tens of thousands of homes have been rebuilt and billions of dirhams distributed, thousands of families remain in tents — not for lack of funds, but because bureaucratic definitions of residency and ownership have quietly decided who counts as a victim. In the shadow of a September election, the distance between a rebuilt home and a pile of rubble has beco
Three years after Morocco earthquake, reconstruction stalls for thousands of excluded victims
Over 2,900 people killed and 5,500+ injured in the 2023 earthquake; thousands of survivors still living in tents three years later without adequate reconstruction support.