Many properties which stood near the river have disappeared ... Derna's population was around 200,000 before the storm hit Libya. The city's mayor said that given number of neighbourhoods ...

Many countries in Africa have long suffered from a severe lack of water due to their shortage of natural reserves such as rivers. All the way back in the 1960s, one such country, Libya ...

Bodies recovered from a devastating flood which wiped out parts of the port city of Derna in eastern Libya have been buried in mass graves. At least 2,300 people died when a tsunami-like river of ...

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