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With thousands of people dead and tens of thousands more left homeless by floods as a storm burst through the dams next to the east Libyan city of Derna, FRANCE 24 looks back at the years of violence and neglect that left the city ill-prepared for the unprecedented natural disasters…

Editorial: Much of the eastern city of Derna has disappeared. The lethal failures of the country’s authorities must bear much of the blame

‘I see the ruin, the destruction, the misery and the smell of death. Derna is now a dead city’

The Foreign Office said the funding was an ‘initial package’ to provide assistance for those most affected by the devastation.

The dams that ruptured in the eastern city of Derna in Libya had been built to protect the city from heavy rains, but their collapse made the flooding even worse. FRANCE 24’s science reporter Shirli Sitbon examines how Libya became so vulnerable and what can other countries do to prevent…

A Palestinian man who had fled Lebanon more than three decades ago seeking safety and a better future in Libya was killed in the flooding this week along with his wife and two daughters

In the coastal city of Derna, dams broke, sending a torrent of water that submerged whole neighborhoods. Rescue efforts are complicated by the fact that Libya is divided between rival governments.

Storm Daniel was by no means the only factor behind the devastation wrought on the city of Derna

Republicans begin a formal impeachment inquiry into President Biden. Aid groups rush to Libya after catastrophic flooding. FDA advisers say a decongestant in common cold medicines doesn't work.

Full scale of devastation in north African nation still not clear as aid agencies struggle to reach cut-off areas

Experts estimate that 30 million cubic metres of water were released into Derna after the dams broke.