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Tripoli, Libya, September 18, 2023 — The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is issuing a critical warning about a rapidly escalating public health crisis in flood-affected parts of Libya, with ...
News Libya » Derna » Trade: 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 » Trade: Libya flood disaster: Scale of the catastrophe must bring two warring factions together, says researcher
A century ago, the coastal city of Derna was well known for picture-perfect beaches, palm trees and whitewashed villas mainly inhabited by Libya's Italian colonial occupiers. Today, in the aftermath ...
News Libya » Derna » Trade: 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 » Trade: Libya floods, mapped: How heavy rainfall wiped out a city
Record rain turned into a disaster when two dams burst, sending flood water through the center of the city of Derna. Thousands of people were killed last week when devastating floods caused by Storm ...
News Libya » Derna » Trade: 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 » Trade: Hundreds protest against Libyan authorities in flood-ravaged Derna
Derna should either be left as it is, or a foreign company should be involved. The souls of the martyrs will not be in vain,” he said. Libya’s vulnerability to extreme weather is increased by its long ...
News Libya » Derna » Trade: 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 » Trade: Libya’s Derna hosts theater festival year after flash flood
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 » Trade: U.N. warns Libya could face "second devastating crisis" if disease spreads in decimated Derna
Derna, Libya — The United Nations warned Monday that disease outbreaks could bring "a second devastating crisis" to Libya a week after a huge flash flood shattered the coastal city of Derna, sweeping ...
News Libya » Derna » Trade: 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 » Trade: 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 ...