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Lahcen sits in the corner of the village dispensary in Moulay Brahim in Morocco's High Atlas mountains. He's inconsolable after losing his wife and four children in Friday night's earthquake. The tragedy of what happened to Lahcen's family is on everybody's lips in ...

A powerful earthquake that shook Morocco late Friday killed more than 600 people, interior ministry figures showed, sending terrified residents fleeing their homes in the middle of the night. The 6.8-magnitude quake struck 72 kilometres (45 miles) southwest of tourist...

Flooding caused by torrential rain has killed eight people in western Algeria, the country's civil defence service said on Sunday. It said the eight had been swept away by floodwaters at Tlemcen and El Bayadh on Saturday. The bodies of two women and two men, aged...