Yahoo

A Libyan city scarred by flooding that killed thousands tries to rebuild a year later

DERNA, Libya (AP) — A year since two dams burst upstream from the eastern Libyan city of Derna, unleashing a wall of water that swept away thousands of people, its residents no longer hold out hope of ...
CNN

Derna valley was once a ‘paradise.’ Now there’s nothing left but devastation

Tarek Fahim was taking videos of the water filling behind the dam in the Derna valley in Libya late Saturday night. Up until 1:30 am, Storm Daniel was just wind and rain. When he went home an hour ...
Yahoo

For a divided Libya, disastrous floods have become a rallying cry for unity

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Zahra el-Gerbi wasn't expecting much of a response to her online fundraiser, but she felt she had to do something after four of her relatives died in the flooding that decimated ...
Los Angeles Times

Searchers look for more than 10,000 missing in flooded Libyan city where death toll has eclipsed 11,000

DERNA, Libya — Libyan authorities limited access to the flooded city of Derna on Friday to make it easier for searchers to dig through the mud and hollowed-out buildings for the more than 10,000 ...
WBAL

Rescue teams retrieve hundreds of bodies in Derna, one of the Libyan cities devastated by floods

The startling death and devastation wreaked by Mediterranean storm Daniel pointed to the storm’s intensity, but also the vulnerability of a nation torn apart by chaos for more than a decade. , one in ...
NBC New York

Libya was mired in chaos and corruption. For years, warnings the Derna dams may burst went unheeded

The warnings were clear but went unheeded. Experts had long said that floods posed a significant danger to two dams meant to protect nearly 90,000 people in the northeast of Libya. They repeatedly ...
The New York Times

A Year After a Deadly Flood, a Libyan City Is Rebuilding but Not Whole

Derna is quickly being reconstructed after a flood that killed thousands. But questions linger about the process, and residents say new buildings cannot erase their trauma. Derna is quickly being ...
World Socialist Web Site

After protests in flood-hit Derna, Libyan officials order journalists to leave

Protests erupted in Derna on Monday, as anger exploded among workers in the city against authorities who failed to take critical measures to protect it from flooding. When Storm Daniel hit the region, ...
Nasdaq

INSIGHT-'They knew' - fury of Libyans that warnings went unheeded before flood

Sept 15 (Reuters) - "They knew." When hydrologist Abdul Wanis Ashour began researching the system of dams protecting the eastern Libya port town of Derna 17 years ago, the peril facing residents was ...
Iowa Public Radio

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 ...
CNN

‘Utter destruction:’ Derna left like a war zone by Libya’s catastrophic flooding

Driving into Derna in the early hours was like arriving in a ghost town. The city, decimated by flash floods that tore through homes and streets earlier this week, was eerily quiet. Even at night, ...