RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Morocco’s King Mohammed VI and the country’s central bank decided to donate a total of 2 billion Moroccan dirhams (about $200 million) to the bank account designated for the victims of the devastating earthquake that struck the country last Friday. On Sunday, the Moroccan government announced the establishment of sp...
GENEVA (AA) – Providing shelter, food, and medical supplies to people in Libya and Morocco who survived two massive lethal natural disasters is the top priority, the UN’s humanitarian affairs chief has said. Speaking at a UN press conference about the earthquake that struck Morocco on September 8 and the devastating floods in Libya on [&...
Imi N’Tala, Morocco – AFP Nine-year-old Moroccan girl Ibtissam Ait Iddar was fortunate to have been rescued from under the rubble, but like other children she remains traumatised by the earthquake that devastated her village. “My father called me and I cried back ‘I’m here, I’m here’,” Ibtissam r...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – A woman was rescued from under the rubble six days after a devastating earthquake hit Morocco and caused huge damage to residential areas, search and rescue teams announced Thursday. Local sources told Anadolu that the woman was saved and pulled out of the rubble from a building in the village of […]
Asni, Morocco — AFP When Moroccan earthquake survivor Khadija Temera was sent to a psychiatrist on Tuesday, she was just one of a hundred newly traumatised patients who would be seen within 24 hours. The powerful quake last Friday killed more than 2,900 people, most of them in remote villages of the High Atlas Mountains. […]
Tikht, Morocco — AFP It was delicate work for the searchers to remove the woman’s body from the rubble of a village that effectively ceased to exist in Morocco’s deadliest earthquake in over six decades. Her 25-year-old fiance Omar Ait Mbarek watched the digging Sunday with his eyes red and full of tears just kilometres [&hel...
Marrakesh, Morocco – AFP Rescue teams stepped up a massive effort to bring relief to devastated Moroccan mountain villages Wednesday as the chances faded fast for finding survivors from the powerful earthquake which killed 2,900 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Vehicles packed with supplies were inching up winding mountain...
Geneva, Switzerland – – AFP The Red Cross has appealed for more than $112 million to provide desperately needed assistance in Morocco, days after a powerful earthquake killed nearly 2,900 people. “We are seeking 100 million Swiss francs ($112 million) to be able to deliver on the most pressing needs at this time,” Carol...
Marrakesh, Morocco – AFP Hopes dimmed on Tuesday in Morocco’s search for survivors, four days after a powerful earthquake killed more than 2,800 people, most of them in remote villages of the High Atlas Mountains. Search-and-rescue teams from the kingdom and from abroad kept digging through the rubble of broken mud-brick homes, hop...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – The death toll from a powerful earthquake in Morocco has jumped to 2,901 people, the country’s Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. In a statement, the ministry said 5,530 other people were injured in the magnitude 7 earthquake that jolted the North African country late Friday. The quake was the strongest to […]
