From the earthquake to reconstruction: what is the assessment a year and a half after the Al-Haouz tragedy?

To date, 33,636 families have been able to complete the construction and rehabilitation work on their homes, according to the report presented last Wednesday in Rabat during the meeting of the Interministerial Commission in charge of the reconstruction and general rehabilitation programme for the areas affected by the Al-Haouz earthquake.
If there is one event that shook Moroccan society during 2023 while mobilising it through a vast wave of solidarity, it is obviously the deadly earthquake that struck the mountainous areas of the High Atlas on the night of Friday, 8 September 2023. This 6.8 magnitude earthquake, the most powerful in Morocco's contemporary history, caused significant human and material damage in addition to massive destruction.
In total, the disaster area, which encompasses 169 communes, was home to a population of 2.6 million inhabitants spread across 578,280 household…