Loay Elmagri began to panic when he didn’t hear back from his relatives in Derna, Libya. The 36-year-old Libyan architect in Washington, D.C., knew floods destroyed a quarter of the city earlier last week. His maternal aunt was home when storms began early Sunday morning and floodwater gushed into her room. The water levels began…
IMI N’TALA, Morocco (AP) — The stench of death wafted through the village of Imi N’Tala high up in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains four days after a deadly earthquake struck, slicing off a chunk of mountain, killing residents and razing the hamlet to the ground. Bulldozers, rescue crews and Moroccan first responders work around the clock…
TAFEGHAGHTE, Morocco (AP) — His dead relatives have been dug out and buried, but the remnants of Musa Bouissirfane’s former life are still trapped under rubble and dust in the ruins of the mud-brick Moroccan village of Tafeghaghte. “It’s incredibly challenging to lose your entire family and all your possessions,” Bouissirfane said as tears welled…
AMIZMIZ, Morocco (AP) — People in Morocco slept in the streets of Marrakech for a third straight night as soldiers and international aid teams in trucks and helicopters began to fan into remote mountain towns hit hardest by a historic earthquake. The disaster killed more than 2,100 people — a number that is expected to…
AMIZMIZ, Morocco (Reuters) -Moroccan earthquake survivors huddled for a night in the open on the High Atlas Mountains on Saturday, a day after the country’s deadliest quake in more than six decades killed more than 2,000 people and laid waste to villages. Neighbours were still searching for survivors buried on the slopes, where houses of…
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A powerful earthquake that struck Morocco late Friday night killed at least 296 people, the country’s Interior Ministry said. Moroccans posted videos showing buildings reduced to rubble and dust and parts of the famous red walls that surround the old city in historic Marrakech, a UNESCO World Heritage site, damaged. Tourists…
The BBC has apologized after one of its reporters asked Morocco’s women’s soccer team captain about the sexuality of her teammates during a press conference. At a media Q&A ahead of Morocco’s first game at the 2023 Women’s World Cup, which is currently being held in Australia and New Zealand, a journalist for the BBC…