The Latest Breaking News from Libya

The authorities in eastern Libya want to rebuild the town of Derna as quickly as possible, nearly two weeks after a flash flood destroyed more than 20 percent of the Libyan port city. The official death toll keeps rising, passing 3,800 over the weekend.

Libya’s chief prosecutor says he has ordered the detention of eight current and former officials pending his investigation into the collapse of two dams

In the two weeks since floods struck the Libyan port city of Derna, the photojournalist Stefanie Glinski has been on the ground speaking to victims of the disaster alongside rescue workers struggling to deal with the devastation

Moscow seized the disaster diplomacy initiative after the deadly Derna floods, with Russian Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-bek Yevkurov arriving in eastern Libya with a promise of aid. Russia is helping Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar while seeking geostrategic payback. But the Derna tragedy has also drawn the US back into Libya,…

Libya and Morocco experienced tragedies in the same week, but there are clear differences in how they played out.

Two aid flights arrive in Benghazi from Doha along with a team from the Qatar Red Crescent.

The support for military takeovers is growing across Africa, and civilian governments are to blame, say analysts.

Hundreds of traumatised children are thought to have lost their families in disaster

Editorial: The catastrophe stands for the wider crimes and failures of those in power. The people have had enough

More than 22 tonnes of food and humanitarian aid was presented to Libya’s Derna by PICA.

Storm Daniel landed on the Libyan coastal town of Toukrah in the early hours of September 10 and started moving east. Soon the wind was rising and heavy rain falling, forcing people to stay indoors. By afternoon the rain was clearly out of the ordinary.