The Latest Breaking News from Libya

In the early hours of September 11, residents of Derna in north-east Libya woke to the sound of loud explosions. After more than a decade of conflict – initially between the Gaddafi regime and local factions, then among militias fighting for rule – they were used to the noise.

Khalifa Haftar, the strongman of eastern Libya, has placed his six sons in positions of political and military power. The deadly floods in Derna have seen his youngest, Saddam, rise to head of disaster relief management and the top of his succession charts. For Libyans, it spells more bad news.

Thousands of Libyans have lost family members, friends and neighbors in the devastating floods that engulfed the country's east

A recent study determined that climate change made the flood 50 times more likely

Journalists handed orders to leave devastated city of Derna after hundreds join protest against flood response

Letters: Prof Janet Hooke describes the dangers of building a city on an alluvial fan and the vulnerability of such locations to extreme weather events. Plus letters from Susan Roaf and David O’Brien

Scientists say climate change made the devastating storm along the Libyan coast up to 50 times more likely and 50% more intense

Floods like the one in Greece and Libya now ‘reasonably common’ due to climate crisis, study finds

Report says climate change made rainfall heavier but human factors turned extreme weather into humanitarian disaster

It also combined with poor maintenance of the broken dams and because the city is built on floodplains, exposing thousands of homes.

Derna authorities say there are so many journalists in the city that they pose an obstacle to the work of rescue teams.