Environment Bound

The death toll from freak floods in eastern Libya is expected to soar dramatically, with 10,000 people reported missing, the Red Cross warned on Tuesday. Officials in Libya have said at least 150 people were killed in the sudden flooding on Sunday afternoon after...

By Anne-Sophie Labadie: The hospital in Amizmiz caring for Moroccans injured in the earthquake is now a tent pitched on asphalt under a blazing sun, and it has only around a dozen beds. When one bed becomes free, it is immediately filled again as the flow of victims...

At least 150 people were killed (North Africa Journal editors' note: count likely to reach or exceed 2,000) when freak floods hit eastern Libya, officials said Monday, after storm Daniel swept the Mediterranean, its torrential rains earlier lashing Turkey, Bulgaria...

By Delphine Touitou: France is insisting that the reluctance of Morocco to accept French offers of aid in the wake of Friday's devastating quake does not represent a snub, even if it comes at a time of growing tensions between Rabat and the former colonial power....