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Moroccans living just an hour from where the global financial elite will gather for IMF and World Bank meetings next week are homeless and destitute after last month's deadly earthquake, camping amid the rubble of their devastated villages. Near the conference venue in the city of Marrakech, where quake damage was less severe, the old city wall has already been repaired, a fallen minaret has been covered up, rubble has been removed, lawns trimmed and flowers planted. A single night in a twin bedroom at Marrakech's historic La Mamounia hotel during the IMF meeting was advertised this week at 20,000 Moroccan dirhams ($1,900).
Villagers living in the Atlas Mountains are still reeling from the after-effects of the devastating 8 September earthquake, as Marrakech prepares to host the IMF and the World Bank.
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