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Rival governments urged to work together to best manage donations for Derna after catastrophic floodingThe government in eastern Libya has been forced to postpone a reconstruction conference for the stricken city of Derna amid concerns about how donati…
Pato Crepin’s wife and six-year-old daughter were repeatedly pushed back by authorities in Tunisia, which has signed a €1bn deal with the EU‘I had to drink my own urine’: Africans tell of being forced back into desert at Tunisia borderPato Crepin had w…
Repair work was agreed but never finished and Derna paid the price. Experts say infrastructure projects have long been neglected, with officials focusing instead on lining their own pockets.
Eight questioned over claims that negligence and mistakes contributed to disaster in which thousands diedLibya’s chief prosecutor has ordered the detention of eight current and former officials pending a full inquiry into the collapse of two dams durin…
Hundreds of traumatised children are thought to have lost their families in disasterPeople in western Libya have rallied round to provide care and breastmilk for young children orphaned by the devastating floods that hit the coastal city of Derna on 10…
Severed fibre-optic cables hamper search for survivors in eastern Libya where thousands died after dams collapsedA daylong communication outage in the flood-stricken city of Derna in eastern Libya has further complicated the work of teams searching for…
Seven employees of Montreal-based security giant GardaWorld languished in detention for nearly two months after their arrest earlier this year by a powerful Libyan militia.
Report says climate change made rainfall heavier but human factors turned extreme weather into humanitarian disasterCarbon pollution led to heavier rains and stronger floods in Greece and Libya this month but other human factors were responsible for “t…
Media crackdown follows reports that police officers had detained and questioned Libyan reportersLibya’s eastern government has ordered journalists to leave Derna after angry protests against the authorities a week after a flood killed thousands of res…
Melting ice caps and rising sea levels are less urgent than floods, wildfires, drought and other disasters, New York summit hearsFloods, wildfires, drought and the onslaught of extreme weather are driving a global health crisis that must be put at the …