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Libya floods 2023
22 September 2023
‘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
21 September 2023
The Guardian view on Derna’s flood tragedy: Libya’s leaders have enjoyed impunity for too long
‘The waters carried him away’: Derna families mourn for those lost to flood
20 September 2023
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
19 September 2023
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
Eastern Libya orders journalists out of flood-hit Derna after protests
Media crackdown follows reports that police officers had detained and questioned Libyan reporters
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
18 September 2023
‘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
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
16 September 2023
Libya flood: international aid arrives as authorities open investigation
‘Towns were erased’: Libyan reporters on the ‘horrifying, harrowing’ aftermath of floods
15 September 2023
‘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
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
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
14 September 2023
Libyans call for inquiry as fury grows over death toll from catastrophic floods
Brief letters
Our part in creating the Libyan disaster
‘An alarm bell’: Libyan poet warned of flood risk in Derna before dying in storms
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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