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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 » Travel: 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 » Travel: 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 » Travel: 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 » Travel: 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 » Travel: Photos of Derna’s Devastation: How Libya Fell Victim to a Most Unnatural Disaster
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News Libya » Derna » Travel: Residents of Libya’s Derna Blame Government for Flood Disaster
When protests whirled by his home early this week, Khalid Alkowash, 42, a local government worker in Derna, Libya was concerned but not surprised. Thousands of people were dead and thousands more ...
News Libya » Derna » Travel: Survivors of Libya's deadly floods describe catastrophic scenes and tragic losses
LONDON — For Ehdaa Bujeldain, an English teacher living with her family in Bab-Tobruk, in the mountains of Derna, eastern Libya, it sounded like a bomb going off in the middle of the night. "On Sunday ...
News Libya » Derna » Travel: 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 » Travel: 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 ...