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Libya floods 2023

  • Aid workers care for children affected by the floods in Derna

    ‘The least we can do is care for their children’: Libyans rally to protect Derna’s orphans

    Hundreds of traumatised children are thought to have lost their families in disaster
  • Ruined buildings in the aftermath of the Derna floods

    The Guardian view on Derna’s flood tragedy: Libya’s leaders have enjoyed impunity for too long

  • Rescue workers in masks and plastic protective clothing

    ‘The waters carried him away’: Derna families mourn for those lost to flood

  • Libyans protest outside a mosque a week after the deadly floods in Derna

    Today in Focus
    The destruction of Derna

    What left the city of Derna vulnerable to such a devastating flood? The Libyan freelance journalist Johr Ali reports on the city in which he grew up
  • A destroyed building in the Libyan city of Derna after deadly flash floods

    Global heating made Greece and Libya floods more likely, study says

    Report says climate change made rainfall heavier but human factors turned extreme weather into humanitarian disaster
  • Aftermath of the floods in Derna.

    Eastern Libya orders journalists out of flood-hit Derna after protests

    Media crackdown follows reports that police officers had detained and questioned Libyan reporters
  • Anti-government protests in flood-hit Derna, Libya.

    Libya protesters set fire to mayor’s home in anger over Derna flood deaths

    Hundreds have demonstrated demanding ‘urgent’ international investigations into the disaster that left thousands dead
  • Rescue teams at work in Derna

    ‘I never thought we would survive’: Derna after the deluge

    Eight days after the Libyan city was devastated by floods the death toll has passed 11,300 but there are some miraculous tales of survival
  • Search and rescue operation teams continue their efforts in Derna, Libya on 17 September 2023.

    Libya floods: warlord using disaster response to exert control, say observers

    Khalifa Haftar and Libyan National Army militia said to be overseeing humanitarian relief arriving in city of Derna
  • An aerial view shows damaged and destroyed buildings next to the sea

    Libya flood: international aid arrives as authorities open investigation

  • Rescue teams and members of Libyan Red Crescent search for dead bodies at a beach, in the aftermath of the floods in Derna.

    ‘Towns were erased’: Libyan reporters on the ‘horrifying, harrowing’ aftermath of floods

  • Rescue teams use heavy machinery to dig in the wreckage in Derna

    ‘The waters carried my son away in front of my eyes’: anguished Libyans mourn lost loved ones

    Relatives grieve and search in desperation as Derna’s mayor fears death toll from floods may exceed 20,000
  • Damage from flooding in Derna, Libya

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Libya floods caused by Storm Daniel ‘medicane’

    Country hit by record rainfall that followed Mediterranean storm with similarities to tropical cyclone
  • Cars piled up atop wave breakers and the rubble of a building destroyed in flash floods after the Mediterranean storm, also known as a ‘medicane’, Daniel hit Libya's eastern city of Derna.

    What are medicanes? The ‘supercharged’ Mediterranean storms that could become more frequent

    The flash flood that has killed thousands of people in Libya this week followed the ‘medicane’ storm Daniel
  • A man sits looking in despair next to the destroyed wreckage of a car.

    Libyans call for inquiry as fury grows over death toll from catastrophic floods

  • Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli in 2009 at a celebration of the 40th anniversary of his coming to power in Libya.

    Brief letters
    Our part in creating the Libyan disaster

  • Men look out at the destruction caused by the floods in Derna

    ‘An alarm bell’: Libyan poet warned of flood risk in Derna before dying in storms

  • People look at damage in Derna

    Destruction of Derna: why was flooding so bad in Libyan port city?

  • Photography then and now
    Before and after: satellite images show Libyan city devastated by flood

  • Libya floods: appeals for body bags amid fears of disease ‘epidemic’

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