Libyan and Moroccan Canadians step up help after disasters: ‘Like family’
More than a combined 11,000 people have died following the earthquake in Morocco and flooding in Libya, with thousands more injured, missing or displaced.
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Libya Investigates Dams’ Collapse After a Devastating Flood
More than 10,000 people are missing, according to the Libyan Red Crescent.
Libya flood: international aid arrives as authorities open investigation
WHO says aid to help 250,000 people has arrived in Benghazi as death toll estimated at more than 11,000International aid is arriving in Libya from the UN, Europe and Middle Eastern countries, offering some relief to thousands after flooding submerged t…
Libyan authorities seal off most of flood-hit Derna in effort to limit deaths
Only emergency workers to be allowed into devastated area over fears of contamination from dead bodies in limited water supplyLibyan authorities have largely sealed off the flood-devastated port town of Derna from civilians in an effort to give space t…
Libya and Morocco: two very different responses to catastrophe
After an earthquake in Morocco and flooding in Libya, civilians are losing out in the disaster-struck north African nationsThe world has been struck by not one but two natural disasters in recent days – the earthquake in Morocco and devastating floodin…
‘The waters carried my son away in front of my eyes’: anguished Libyans mourn lost loved ones
Relatives grieve and search in desperation as Derna’s mayor fears death toll from floods may exceed 20,000Omar al-Rifadi has been searching for his missing 20-year-old daughter ever since disaster struck the Libyan city of Derna on Sunday, when she dis…
Hundreds of Libya Flood Victims Buried in Mass Graves
Thousands remain missing following the devastating flood in the country’s northeast. Health officials fear the window to recover them alive is closing.
Weather tracker: Libya floods caused by Storm Daniel ‘medicane’
Country hit by record rainfall that followed Mediterranean storm with similarities to tropical cycloneAfter battering Greece last week, Storm Daniel caused further devastating floods, this time affecting Libya. As the storm moved across the Sahara, it …
Four Indians Stranded In Libya Evacuated By Indian Embassy In Tripoli
Tripoli: Four Indians stranded in Libya have been evacuated by the Indian Embassy in Tripoli.The four Indians from Punjab, Haryana, were on Thursday seen off at the Benina Airport by the embassy’s local representative Tabassum Mansoor.“Four stranded Indians from Punjab and Haryana being seen off by Embassy’s local representative Mrs Tabassum Mansoor at Benina Airport on September 14,” the Indian
What are medicanes? The ‘supercharged’ Mediterranean storms that could become more frequent
The flash flood that has killed thousands of people in Libya this week followed the ‘medicane’ storm DanielThe flash flood that has killed thousands of people in Libya this week followed a “medicane”, a rare but destructive weather phenomenon that scie…