Several experts have highlighted the possible role that the political instability in Libya has played in the upkeep of the dam. As rescue efforts in the city continue, Libyan journalist Johr Ali ...

The death toll from two catastrophic dam collapses in eastern Libya has risen to 6,000, a unity government official has said, as rescue workers continue to recover hundreds of bodies from the ...

[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 ...

Water engineering experts have told the BBC it is likely a dam around 12km (eight miles ... it's like a tsunami," Hisham Chkiouat, from Libya's eastern-based government, told BBC Newshour.

On September 10, Storm Daniel made landfall in eastern Libya, triggering torrential rain in the hills above Derna. Abu Mansur dam, 13 kilometres (just over nine miles) from the city, whose ...

For years now, Libya has been divided between an internationally recognized Tripoli-based administration in the west -- to which Sur belongs -- and another in the flood-struck east. The first dam ...

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