The west is right to offer help – disaster-hit countries are not obliged to accept it | Peter Beaumont

The international narrative around the aid response to Morocco ’s earthquake has been a rather shabby one.

Some western officials have sniped over how Rabat was slow to ask for help from outside.

But overall the Moroccan government's response has been reasonably effective.

In the space of about 48 hours Morocco partially reopened one of the main roads into the heart of the earthquake zone, opening up a corridor for aid to reach those worst affected.