The Latest Breaking News on Two months after flood in Libya’s Derna, mental anguish still takes lives

Thousands of Libyans have lost family members, friends and neighbors in the devastating floods that engulfed the country's east

Journalists handed orders to leave devastated city of Derna after hundreds join protest against flood response

Scientists say climate change made the devastating storm along the Libyan coast up to 50 times more likely and 50% more intense

Derna authorities say there are so many journalists in the city that they pose an obstacle to the work of rescue teams.

The prime minister of Libyan’s eastern administration says authorities have divided the flood-stricken city of Derna into four sections to create buffers in case of disease outbreaks

Hundreds of protesters rallied in Libya's disaster-hit Derna on Monday, accusing the authorities of neglect after a huge flash flood devastated the coastal city and swept thousands to their deaths, with the United Nations warning that disease outbreaks could bring "a second devastating crisis".

Warnings about the condition of the vital dams was ignored

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya has warned that an outbreak of diseases in the country's northeast, where floods have killed over 11,000 people, could create “a second devastating crisis,” with Libyan authorities reporting the spread of diarrhea among over 100 people who drank contaminated water

With local media failing to deliver information, independent Libyan reporters cover the dam disaster on their own.

The city of Derna in eastern Libya is still digging out and counting the dead after floods struck more than a week ago.

For years, experts had warned that floods posed a significant danger to two dams protecting nearly 90,000 people in northeastern Libya