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

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital city, will likely face increased heatwaves, droughts and severe flooding over the next 67 years. These changes will pose risks to public health and infrastructure. They’ll also be felt most acutely by the city’s most vulnerable residents: those living in informal settlements.

At least hundreds of people have died and thousands are feared missing in eastern Libya after Storm Daniel swept in, destroying dams and unleashing a torrent of muddy water that carried homes away.

A viral video from the scene shows a "river of wine" coursing down a hilly street, sluicing over curbs. The wine escaped from two tanks at a distillery up the hill.

Catastrophic storm floods have killed at least 2,300 people in the coastal city of Derna, according to Libyan emergency services, as local officials say around a quarter of the eastern city was wiped away when a dam burst. Thousands more people are reported missing.

The estimate exceeds $6bn paid out by insurers for Australia’s costliest disaster, the 2022 NSW and Queensland floods

Researchers found a new model that has the potential to significantly improve emergency response by lowering flood forecasting time from hours to days and allowing flood behaviour to be reliably anticipated at super-fast speeds as an event unfolds. Read further on Dynamite News:

At least 2,200 people were killed in Libya and thousands more were reported missing after catastrophic flash floods broke river dams and tore through an eastern coastal city, devastating entire neighbourhoods.

Neighbourhoods washed away in port city of Derna, where two dams burst, with many bodies swept out to sea