Reuters reporters travelling along a remote road connecting Amazigh, or Berber, villages, saw survivors camped out under plastic sheets
Children affected by a deadly earthquake stand outside a house, in the rural village of Azermoun, on Sept. 14.“We Amazigh feel like foreigners in our country. We feel isolated. The people here are in need. They feel like they are alone,” Radouen Oubella, 20, said in his village of Azermoun.
Rescue personnel of Spain's Military Emergency Unit prepare their vehicle to go to a devastated area following the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, in Amizmiz, on Sept. 14.The city of Marrakech, which was about 72 km from the epicentre and suffered some damage, will host the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund as planned on Oct. 9-15, Morocco’s central bank governor said on Thursday.
“The people are suffering in this earthquake. They have nothing. We live only on air. We need tents and blankets,” said Mohamed Zidane, 55, from Aoufour. “We are still waiting for the government to help us,” said Mohamed Oufkir, 30. “We are here because we are homeless.”
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