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[AFP] Twelve people were convicted on Sunday in Libya's eastern city of Derna over their role in "managing dam facilities" during last year's deadly floods, the general prosecutor's office said in ...

Libya was hit the hardest largely because torrential rains causing two dams near the city of Derna to fail. World Weather Attribution says: 'While the dams were not designed to deal with the ...

Like much of Libya's crumbling infrastructure, the two dams that had been built to hold back water from Derna fell into disrepair during years of neglect, conflict and division in chaos-ridden Libya.

There, disaster struck after two dams collapsed upstream of Derna. Water rushed down Wadi Derna, a dry riverbed, directly into the city. Heggy and his colleague, graduate student Jonathan Normand ...

meanwhile described how "entire neighbourhoods" in Derna had disappeared and their inhabitants been "swept away by water, after two ageing dams collapsed making the situation catastrophic and out ...

Tripoli, October 8, 2023 (LANA) - The committee assigned by the President of the Supreme Judicial Council to investigate the disaster of the Wadi Derna dam collapse held its meeting today, Sunday, at ...

When these two dams broke, 30 million cubic meters of water headed towards the city of Derna, exacerbating the effects of Storm Daniel. Such damage highlights just how devastating flooding can be to ...