Yesterday started the I-54 #art fair in #Marrakech. It is now one of the most important exhibitions for contemporary #AfricanArt, a market segment, which becomes each year more important in the art world.
Beside the original I-54 in London, the AKAA ("Also Known As Africa") in Paris and the "Art X Lagos" in Nigeria, the Marrakech fair brings together a variety of artists from the continent, as well as international galleries, collectors and experts.
Paradoxe terrible que ce séisme de #Marrakech révèle ?
Le Maroc a dépensé depuis des décennies pour coloniser le Sahara occidental (= combattre militairement le Front Polisario installé à Tindouf 🇩🇿) Aujourd'hui, des milliers de sinistrés attendent encore le minimum pour survivre. Le roi 🇲🇦 refuse pourtant l'aide de de pays jugés "non bienvenus" (ce n'est pas le cas de l'🇸🇦 ).
Comment va réagir la diaspora 🇫🇷 ?
↪️ Un échec politique de premier ordre = opinion publique en colère (silencieusement)
Maroc: le séisme le plus puissant de l’histoire du pays fait plus de 1 000 morts
Les provinces rurales d’Al-Haouz et Taroudant, proches de #Marrakech, ont été frappées dans la nuit de vendredi par un #séisme de magnitude 7,2 sur l’échelle de Richter. Le bilan officiel provisoire du ministère de l’intérieur faisait état à 14 heures de 1 037 morts et 1 204 blessés, dont 721 en état grave, dans neuf provinces et préfectures. Témoignages.
Current reports say that more than 800 people have died & hundreds are injured. The quake struck after 11pm, when most people are at home and in bed.
"#Morocco’s geophysical centre said the #quake struck in the Ighil area with a magnitude of 7.2. The US Geological Survey put the quake’s magnitude at 6.8 and said it was at a relatively shallow depth of 11.5 miles (18.5km)."
The #earthquake struck shortly after 11pm local time, sending stone buildings and pieces of a towering minaret tumbling in central #Marrakech and causing widespread panic far from the rural town of Ighil in the Al Haouz province, 44 miles south of Marrakech.
At least 2,680 people were killed and more than 2,500 were injured after Friday night’s magnitude-6.8 earthquake struck here in the High #AtlasMountains, southwest of #Marrakech.
In #Tafeghaghte, the #SearchAndRescue mission is at an end. There are only 100 homes in this hamlet, yet more than 90 people are dead. The last of the corpses was recovered Monday morning. #Morocco
Devastated to hear about the #earthquake in #Morocco. I've been a number of times, absolutely love the country, and adore #Marrakech (always stay in the same family-run riad). I’ve been up into the Atlas mountains – to Oukaïmeden, very close to the epicentre – and there are so many small communities, particularly the Berbers, that will have been affected. 💔 🇲🇦
As a place where big earthquakes are not common, and a place where buildings are generally made with mud, bricks, stone, it is definitely going to be an area where a 6.8 #earthquake will kill people. #Morocco#Marrakech