French president addresses Moroccans directly amid political rift between Rabat and Paris

French president Emmanuel Macron has attempted to soothe tensions with Morocco over the supply of humanitarian aid, after a deadly earthquake centred high in the Atlas mountains.

Search and rescue teams backed by the Moroccan military continued a frantic search to locate and airlift the wounded from remote mountainous villages in the Atlas mountains where the 6.8 magnitude quake struck last Friday, with the possibility of finding survivors fading as rescue efforts continued for a fifth day.

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