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Follow live updates of a deadly, powerful earthquake that struck Morocco, killing more than 1,300 people and causing widespread damage in and around the city of Marrakesh. WHAT TO KNOW:
Is there an an alternative to the High Atlas mountains? Yes, says El Hammoumy – the Middle Atlas mountains, which are considered to be in the north of the country, about 90 minutes southeast of Fez.
Guerguerat border crossing in 2007. Guerguerat is a small village located on the southern coast of the region, along the Moroccan National Route 1 leading to Mauritania, some 380 kilometres (240 mi) north of Nouakchott, in a buffer zone patrolled by MINURSO; [36] UN's envoy to the region, Horst Köhler, resigned in mid-2019 for health-related reasons. [37]
An UN-monitored cease-fire has been in effect since September 1991. No other country than the United States and Israel has ever recognized Morocco's unilateral annexation of Western Sahara; [2] [3] however, certain countries such as the United Kingdom have recognized that Morocco exerts de facto control of the region.
France used mainly artillery fire from armored cruisers to bomb the city and targets in the surrounding area, which caused an estimated 1,500 to 7,000 Moroccan deaths. [1] The bombardment of Casablanca opened a western front to the French conquest of Morocco after Hubert Lyautey 's occupation of Oujda in the east earlier that year.
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