Inside Derna, Libya's devastated city
DERNA, Libya — The center of the eastern city of Derna is like one big graveyard — a mass of flattened buildings, wrecked lives and upended vehicles amid torn trees. From where I’m standing, at least three huge bridges in the city center are leveled. The sheer numbers of people dead or unaccounted for in the Libyan city of Derna are overwhelming survivors. Sky NewsA few hours after daybreak and there are small groups of civilians, some with just pickaxes, trampling over the boulders and rubble left in Derna center in the wake of Storm Daniel. The steaming heat has meant the corpses they’re finding are putrid after almost a week of decomposing.
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September 15, 2023 16:38 UTC
Libya floods latest: BBC finds little foreign aid in flood-hit city of Derna
“The biggest concern now is the contaminated water... Water supply in the city is dependent on wells underground. Most of the wells have been covered in mud, damaged or contaminated with sewage," Othman says. "There were no instructions asking people to remain in their homes, except areas where they were not in the way of the water." He adds: “I heard people say the dams were not being maintained... This storm is unprecedented... the amount of water exceeded 450mm in a very short time.”
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September 15, 2023 15:53 UTC
3 questions for UNICEF on why the Libya floods were so devastating
People look for survivors in Derna, Libya. Two dams on the Wadi Derna River burst, leading to massive floods in the coastal city of Derna. Read more from Yahoo News, Libyan floods death toll exceeds 11,000: What we knowWhat made it so badDamage from massive flooding is seen in Derna, Libya. On Monday, Storm Daniel unfurled across eastern Libya, affecting most of the region but especially the areas of Al Bayda, Al Marj and Derna. Storm Daniel caused more than 400mm — or 16 inches — of rain in just 24 hours, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
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September 15, 2023 15:27 UTC
Nile River: They worked for years in Libya, Now an Egyptian village mourns scores of its men killed in flooding
"It was like hell," said Rashad Ezzat Abdel-Hamid, a 45-year-old Egyptian who survived the disaster. Around him, people were wailing and crying, looking for their loved ones and trying to retrieve those under the rubble. He had gone there only six months ago.Egyptians have for decades gravitated to oil-rich Libya for work. Village homes face date palms groves and the fields are green with clover, corn and other grains. His father was building it for him, adding a third floor to the family home.Abdel-Fattah's three nephews also died in Derna.
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September 15, 2023 15:19 UTC
Today’s Top News: A Scramble for Rescuers in Libya, and More
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September 15, 2023 15:04 UTC
Telangana’s determination, vision in going green impressive: Erik Solheim
Q: Telangana’s determination to go greenThe Telangana government is determined to go green, develop urban parks and clean up lakes. Q: Hyderabad as host of Formula E Race, winner of World Tree City and Green City AwardsHyderabad is developing as an example for different endeavours. It is a green city, is high on tech and the most happening and fastest growing city in India. Does it want to import electric cars or manufacture them here so that jobs can be created and value addition takes place? Q: Buzz around Green Hydrogen initiativesThere is huge potential for India in the Green Hydrogen sector.
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September 15, 2023 15:02 UTC
International aid continues in Libya as country reels from flooding
International aid continues to arrive in Libya as the country continues to struggle after floods killed thousands and left people in the city of Derna homeless. The biggest concern for the country’s authorities is now the contamination of the cities’ water sources. “The biggest concern now is the contaminated water... water supply in the city is dependent on wells underground. United Nations Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths said it was "a massive reminder of climate and its presence". The group left Malta on Tuesday, to assist the country following the catastrophic flooding which has left thousands dead and missing.
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September 15, 2023 14:57 UTC
They worked for years in Libya. Now an Egyptian village mourns scores of its men killed in flooding
Ashraf Sadawy Abdel-Fattah saw a list on social media with names of Egyptians killed in the horrific flooding that tore through the city of Derna in neighboring Libya on Sunday night. At least 74 men from the village, some as young as 17, were killed when Mediterranean storm Daniel unleashed heavy rainfall on Derna on Sunday night. More than 11,300 people were reported killed, according to the Libyan Red Crescent — including scores of Egyptians who had lived and worked in Derna for years. Libyan authorities say that so far, bodies of 145 Egyptians killed in Derna have been found. In Nazlet el-Sharif, 167 kilometers (103 miles) from Cairo, 74 village men were buried in a mass funeral on Wednesday attended by local officials and hundreds of villagers.
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September 15, 2023 14:56 UTC
Germany sends 30 tons of humanitarian aid to Libya
BERLIN, Sept 15 (MENA) – Two German Air Force cargo planes took off from a military airfield near the city of Wunsdorf to deliver 30 tons of humanitarian aid to Libya, the German Ministry of Defense said in a statement“The humanitarian aid shipment weighing 30 tons includes tents, cots, blankets, sleeping mats and electric generators. The total volume is 151 cubic meters,” the ministry said. The German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development will also allocate €4 million to the needs of Libyans affected by the floods.
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September 15, 2023 13:51 UTC
UN seeks $71m for Libya flood victims
The United Nations is urgently seeking more than $71 million to assist those most in need after deadly flash floods swept Libya over the weekend. Hurricane-strength Storm Daniel slammed into Libya on September 10, killing at least 4,000 people, with thousands more still missing. In a flash appeal Thursday, the United Nations Humanitarian Agency (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) said it expects the toll to rise. The city of Derna, one of the hardest-hit locations, was reduced to a wasteland after two upstream dams burst Sunday. Whole families, taken by surprise, were swept away in the deluge of water,” he said in a statement.
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September 15, 2023 13:35 UTC
‘Utter destruction:’ Derna left like a war zone by Libya’s catastrophic flooding
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September 15, 2023 12:42 UTC
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Libya evacuates flooded city as searchers look for 10,000 missing after death toll passes 11,000
DERNA, Libya (AP) — Libyan authorities evacuated residents from an inundated city Friday and limited access to it, as searchers dug through mud and hollowed-out buildings for 10,000 people missing and feared dead in flooding that has already killed more than 11,000. A drone shows the destruction from floods in Derna, Libya. The disaster has brought rare unity, as government agencies across Libya’s divide rushed to help the affected areas. But relief efforts have been slowed by the destruction after several bridges that connect the city were destroyed. Teams have buried bodies in mass graves outside the city and in nearby towns, Eastern Libya’s health minister, Othman Abduljaleel, said.
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September 15, 2023 12:01 UTC
Climate change may be factor in Libya floods, expert says
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September 15, 2023 06:30 UTC
Whole families drowned in Libya’s flood. Many didn’t realize the danger until they heard dams burst
DERNA, Libya (AP) — The wall of water several stories high smashed into apartment buildings, drowning entire families in minutes. Bodies of the flooding victims are transported in Derna, Libya, Wednesday, Sept.13, 2023. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)While many towns in eastern Libya saw deadly flooding, Derna, renowned for its white villas and palm trees, was the worst-hit. Damage from massive flooding is seen in Derna, Libya, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad) Damage from massive flooding is seen in Derna, Libya, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023.
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September 15, 2023 05:50 UTC
Who is responsible for the disaster in Libya? Everyone.
ArrowRight There’s plenty of blame to go around in the wake of an apocalyptic disaster in eastern Libya. “Between 2011 and 2014, there were already concerns about the state of Libyan infrastructure,” Mary Fitzgerald, a Libya expert at the Middle East Institute, told my colleagues. Political elites, whether in Tripoli or eastern Libya, haven’t prioritized the huge infrastructural challenges Libya faces.”Libya’s feuding factions and fractured polity laid the groundwork for the devastation that followed. Libyan social media “is already rife with criticism of European governments,” noted Tarek Megerisi of the European Council on Foreign Relations. “But for Libya’s political players … this is all just another episode in the struggle for money and power.”
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September 15, 2023 04:59 UTC