Libya News » Derna News Libya » Derna » Places: Two months after flood in Libya’s Derna, mental anguish still takes lives
Derna, Libya – About a month after floods devastated Libya’s eastern city of Derna, Dr Khaled al-Shaari was discovered by his neighbours. He had taken his own life near his flood-ravaged home. His ...
News Libya » Derna » Places: Libya floods: The drowning of Derna was a man-made disaster decades in the making
In the early hours of September 11, residents of Derna in north-east Libya woke to the sound of loud explosions. After more than a decade of conflict—initially between the Gaddafi regime and local ...
News Libya » Derna » Places: Libya Flood: Thousands Still Missing Amid Mental Health Crisis
In some places the water came on like a pack of cars, speeding more than 120 kilometers an hour over the tops of 30-meter-high palm trees. As Hani Elbah, a 47-year-old government worker, saw the flood ...
News Libya » Derna » Places: Horrific dam collapses epitomize Libya's failures. Why were so many warnings ignored?
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People look for survivors in Derna, Libya. For years, experts warned that floods pose significant danger to dams protecting tens ...
News Libya » Derna » Places: Derna, Libya: Floods, Death, and Destruction: The Gift of NATO
After the two dams broke in Derna, eastern Libya on Monday September 11, 2023, more than 11,300 persons were killed. There are over 11,000 still missing one week later. All the major international ...
News Libya » Derna » Places: Libya: Derna Flood Response Costs Lives
(Beirut) – An independent inquiry is needed to review failings in Libyan authorities’ management of catastrophic flooding in eastern Libya in September 2023, Human Rights Watch said today. The floods ...
News Libya » Derna » Places: Climate change exacerbates deadly floods in Libya and worldwide
Catastrophic floods in eastern Libya killed at least 3,958 people, according to the United Nations. The disaster comes after a string of deadly floods around the world this month, from China to Brazil ...
News Libya » Derna » Places: Libya's Eastern Government Postpones Derna Reconstruction Conference
Libya's eastern authorities Sunday announced the postponement of a reconstruction conference for the flood-hit city of Derna that had been planned for October 10 but was met with international ...
News Libya » Derna » Places: Drowning of Libyan town was man-made disaster decades in the making
Sept. 21 (UPI) --In the early hours of Sept. 11, residents of Derna in northeast Libya woke to the sound of loud explosions. After more than a decade of conflict -- initially between the Gadhafi ...
News Libya » Derna » Places: Engineers — and a poet — warned of disaster, but Derna's dams were left to collapse and kill thousands
A race to the roof was all that saved them from the deluge. It was like being “in the middle of the sea with massive waves crashing around,” said high school teacher Ahmad al-Sharif, who scrambled to ...
News Libya » Derna » Places: Libya’s ‘City of Poets’ Pays a Heavy Price in Floods
Derna, which lost entire neighborhoods and thousands of residents in the deluge, has a history as a cultural and intellectual hub as well as a rebellious streak. By Raja Abdulrahim See more of our ...
News Libya » Derna » Places: ‘A real hell’: The climate refugees of Libya’s floods and regional strife
Often, in the middle of the night, Khadijah can hear screaming. It could be the woman in the classroom next door, who has refused to change out of her abaya since Libya was hit with deadly floods on ...