The doorbell rang over and over, but the house was gone. Like almost every building in Douar Tnirt, a village high up in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, the home was a rubble of broken mud bricks, its broken doorbell insisting in vain that, even after a powerful earthquake, it …
Read More »Earthquake in Morocco: Morocco Races to Dig Out Survivors After Strongest Quake in 100 Years
Sept. 9, 2023, 3:51 p.m. ET Sept. 9, 2023, 3:51 p.m. ET Residents fleeing their homes in Moulay Brahim, a village near the epicenter of the quake, outside Marrakesh, Morocco, on Saturday.Credit…Mosa’Ab Elshamy/Associated Press Earthquakes in northern Africa, while not frequent, are not unexpected. Morocco is positioned at the juncture …
Read More »Powerful 6.8 Earthquake in Morocco Kills More Than 2,000
A powerful earthquake struck Morocco on Friday night, killing more than 2,000 people and setting off frantic rescue efforts through rubble-strewn city streets and remote rural areas as some residents sifted through mountains of debris with their bare hands. The earthquake, which had a magnitude of at least 6.8 and …
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Earthquake in Morocco: Death Toll Jumps Above 1,300 From Strong Quake in Morocco
Earthquake in Morocco: Death Toll Jumps Above 1,000 From Strong Quake in Morocco
Residents of Morocco who experienced the earthquake firsthand said that confusion had quickly turned into chaos when their walls started shaking and objects started crashing to the ground. In Amizmiz, a town about 30 miles southwest of Marrakesh that is near the epicenter, Yasmina Bennani was about to go to …
Read More »Earthquake in Morocco: Death Toll Climbs Past 800 as Strong Quake Strikes Morocco
Sept. 9, 2023, 6:03 a.m. ET Sept. 9, 2023, 6:03 a.m. ET President Emmanuel Macron of France and King Mohammed VI of Morocco in Rabat, Morocco, in 2018.Credit…Christophe Archambault/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Around 3 a.m. local time on Saturday — hours before other European governments said anything publicly about …
Read More »Earthquake in Morocco: Death Toll Climbs Past 600 as Strong Quake Strikes Morocco
Sept. 9, 2023, 2:59 a.m. ET Sept. 9, 2023, 2:59 a.m. ET The aftermath of an earthquake in Agadir, Morocco, in 1960.Credit…Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Rescue efforts after the 1960 earthquake.Credit…Three Lions/Getty Images Serious earthquakes in Morocco, which the U.S. Geological Survey calls “uncommon but not unexpected,” have inflicted …
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African leaders allied with Russia had grown used to dealing with Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the swaggering, profane mercenary leader who traveled the continent by private jet, offering to prop up shaky regimes with guns and propaganda in return for gold and diamonds. But the Russian delegation that toured three African …
Read More »South Sudanese Flee War in Sudan
Nyamut Gai lost everything four years ago when armed militias stormed through her village in South Sudan, a landlocked African country tormented by civil war, famine and flooding. Desperate, she and her family fled almost 600 miles north across the border to Sudan, where she worked as a cleaner in …
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