Shield and Alert: Maghreb Bound

By Rim Taher: Flash flooding in east Libya caused by Storm Daniel tore through the coastal city of Derna, leaving upwards of 2,300 dead, 10,000 missing and entire neighbourhoods in ruins. This is what we know so far about the extreme weather event that hit the...

Understanding North Africa's Quakes, History and What to Expect

At least 2,300 people were killed in Libya and thousands more were reported missing after catastrophic flash floods broke river dams and tore through an eastern coastal city, devastating entire neighbourhoods.  As global concern spread, multiple nations offered to...

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...