Prosecutors are investigating the spending of dam maintenance funds, he told reporters Friday. ... in the aftermath of the floods in Derna, Libya, Sept. 13, 2023, ...

Rival governments in Libya impact the recovery from devastating floods People in eastern Libya are still reckoning with the aftermath of last month's floodwaters that washed out to sea the heart ...

09/18/2023 September 18, 2023. In the aftermath of a devastating flood in Libya, the threat of more dam failures looms. Survivors face the risk of displaced land mines and contaminated water.

Libya floods latest: Death toll soars to 11,300 from 'dam of death' in Derna ... Flooding aftermath is seen in Derna, Libya, Thursday, Sept.14, 2023. (Yousef Murad/AP) ...

Libya has been mired in chaos since a Nato-backed uprising ousted dictator Muammer Gaddafi from power in 2011. International efforts to forge a political settlement between rival factions have ...

More than 11,000 people have been killed by devastating floods in Libya, with more than 10,000 still missing and survivors now facing the threat of waterborne diseases.

Derna is prone to flooding, and its dam reservoirs have caused at least five deadly floods since 1942, the latest of which was in 2011, according to a research paper published by Libya’s Sebha ...

This combination of satellite photos from Planet Labs PBC show a dam on Sept. 2, 2023, top, and after it collapsed on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, bottom, in Derna, Libya. Planet Labs PBC via AP ...

In Libya’s case, bad management appears to have been the cause of the dam’s collapse. Could this tragedy have been avoided? Yes, if the responsible people operating the dams had opened the ...

If the dam were to fail, an estimated 3.5 million people would be impacted. But the necessary fixes to shore up the structure haven’t yet been made. In Libya, too, engineers were aware of the ...

But Libya is split into two rival governments — one in the west, based in Tripoli, and one in the east — and its terrain has been torn up by the path of the flood, further complicating relief ...