IMF and World Bank annual meeting in quake-hit Marrakech likely to go ahead next month, At least 2,900 people have been killed and 5,500 injured in Morocco s worst earthquake for 120 years, state television reported late on 12 September as anger was growing over delays in getting rescue equipment to more remote areas in the country.
Relations between the European Parliament and Morocco are nosediving, jeopardising agreements on trade, energy and migration, The fall-out from the Qatargate scandal is tarnishing both the European Parliament, the European Union s legislature, and Morocco s security services. It will also complicate efforts by the European Commission, the EU s executive arm, to strengthen ties with Rabat on security and trade.