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DERNA, Libya: A year after a flash flood ripped through Derna and killed thousands of people, the coastal Libyan city is hosting a theater festival with a message of hope. The city in the war-torn ...
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 rebuilding flood-devastated Derna
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Bulldozers carrying sand drive down the streets of Derna in eastern Libya. Months after September's deadly and devastating ...
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: 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: 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: 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: ‘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 ...
News Libya » Derna » Places: Libya's eastern govt delays Derna reconstruction meeting
Flash floods in eastern Libya killed thousands in the coastal city of Derna — - Libya's eastern authorities said Sunday they had postponed a reconstruction conference for the flood-hit city of Derna ...
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 In the days after ...
News Libya » Derna » Places: Helping Libya after Derna
HR/VP blog-Last week I met Abdoulaye Bathily, the United Nations Secretary General’s Special Representative (UN SRSG) for Libya. An opportunity to take stock of the decade long ongoing political ...