North Africa: Morocco and Libya – UN Scales Up Support for Disaster Relief

Two very different catastrophes in Morocco and in Libya united by the “unimaginable trauma” of bereaved families, continue to mobilize the UN’s relief efforts, the Organisation’s top aid official Martin Griffiths said on Friday.

He called for solidarity with the people of the two countries and spoke of the tragedy of people looking desperately for their loved ones for days on end.

In Libya, “some have lost 50 or more family members“, he said.

Immediate deployment

Asked whether the UN was “ready”…