The Maghreb is its worst enemy

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2023-09-17 11:00:00

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LETTER FROM THE MAGHREB. The five Maghreb countries are incapable of getting along, even if only to fight against natural disasters.

By Benoît Delmas

Published on 09/17/2023 at 11:00 a.m.

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In Derna (Libya), under the yoke of the storm named Daniel, the desert became an ocean. The water rose to the fourth floor of the buildings, transforming the apartments into deadly aquariums. When she withdrew, she took hundreds of corpses into the Mediterranean. Saturday evening, there were 11,300 dead, more than 9,000 missing.

Further west, in Morocco, in Amizmiz, a town of 20,000 inhabitants nestled at the foot of the High Atlas, the earthquake streaked the buildings, breaking them with a seismic shock of magnitude 6.8, transforming the homes in sarcophagi. On the 8th day, the provisional report shows 2,956 deaths. In just a few days, North Africa suffered two very large-scale natural disasters. One month before the first rains and frost, 300,000 Moroccans and…

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