In 2007, when Libya was still ruled by strongman Moammar Kadafi, a Turkish company, Arsel, was tasked with rehabilitating the dams and building a third dam in ... civil war broke out and the ...

CAIRO — Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that broke dams and swept away entire neighborhoods in multiple coastal towns in the east of the North African nation.

Once one dam collapsed ... after the dams broke. Hichem Chkiouat, minister of civil aviation and member of the emergency committee of the eastern administration of Libya, said one-quarter of ...

Prosecutors are investigating the spending of dam maintenance funds. Libya's chief prosecutor announced ... it began when the Arab Spring uprising broke out in the country in the early 2010s.

At least 8,000 people in Libya have been killed by this week ... “It’s very clear that without this dam break, we wouldn’t have seen the tragic number of fatalities that that have happened ...

The storm brought torrential rains that broke records ... of the lower dam, which was much closer to the Derna. The two dams had suffered major damage in the 1980s, Libya’s general prosecutor ...

The extreme rainfall that hit Libya on Sunday was brought by a system ... “It’s very clear that without this dam break, we wouldn’t have seen the tragic number of fatalities that that ...

Burweila says she accepts the strength of the storm did apply severe pressure to Libya, "but the lack of maintenance of the dam is what pushed it to break". Burweila adds the poor quality of ...

The northeastern Libyan city of Derna has been ravaged by the collapse of two dams, resulting from the relentless onslaught of flooding. The calamity has caused catastrophic damage, leaving entire ...

After opening a probe, Libya's prosecutor general Al-Seddik ... The deluge then broke Al Bilad, the second dam, which had a capacity of 1.5 million cubic metres and is just a kilometre from ...