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Morocco’s reluctance to accept quake aid baffles foreign governments
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The Moroccan Interior Ministry said in a statement Sunday that it would initially accept search-and-rescue teams only from Britain, Qatar, Spain and the United Arab Emirates — which it called “friendly countries” — after taking into account the “needs of the field.”
In France, which ruled over Morocco as a colonial power from 1912 to 1956, the lack of uptake of support was greeted with surprise and sparked speculation that a cooling in relations between Paris and Rabat over immigration and other issues had played a role.
The rapid deployment unit was “ready within a short time to use their technical expertise to provide humanitarian aid in Morocco,” the agency’s president, Sabine Lackner, said in a news release.
Even if relief officials wanted to accept foreign assistance, permission would require approval from the very top, and any such request could easily become mired in a bureaucratic chain of command, said Samia Errazzouki, an expert in Moroccan history and governance at Stanford University.
Reluctance to allow a broad range of aid could stem from unwillingness to permit scrutiny or lose control of the narrative about the conditions in communities hit by the quake, amid a potential public relations nightmare.
An influx of foreign aid workers could be “a source of anxiety for the Moroccan state, as perhaps it would shed light on issues that many of us have been trying to signal [are] not tenable, and lives are at stake.”
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