[ad_1] Sixty-one migrants, including women and children, drowned following a shipwreck off Libya, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Libya said. IOM, in a post on social media platform X, quoted survivors as saying the boat, carrying around 86 people, departed the Libyan city of Zwara, about 110 km (68 miles) from the capital,…
[ad_1] Libya’s chief prosecutor has ordered the detention of eight current and former officials pending an investigation into the collapse of two dams earlier this month, a disaster that sent a wall of water several metres high through the centre of a coastal city and left thousands of people dead. The two dams outside the…
[ad_1] UN agencies have warned that Libya’s flood-stricken city of Derna, where thousands were killed a week ago, faces the threat of disease outbreaks that could bring “a second devastating crisis”. According to international media reports, the massive flash flood that is estimated to have killed over 11,000 people and left more than 10,000 missing…
[ad_1] Aid groups have warned of the growing risk posed by the spread of disease that could compound the humanitarian crisis in Libya, as hopes dwindled of finding more survivors days after deadly flooding. According to international media reports, sunday’s flood submerged the port city of Derna, washing thousands of people and homes out to…
[ad_1] The number of deaths in the Libyan city of Derna could range from 18,000 to 20,000 following catastrophic flooding, according to the city’s mayor. Abdulmenam Al-Ghaithi told an international news channel yesterday this could be based on the number of wiped-out districts in the city. It came as the King sent a letter of…
[ad_1] Toll could reach 18,000 to 20,000, based on number of wiped-out districts, says Abdulmenam al Ghaithi, mayor of eastern city. The estimated number of deaths in the Libyan city of Derna after a catastrophic flood could reach 18,000 to 20,000, Derna’s mayor has told an international newspaper. Abdulmenam al Ghaithi told the Saudi-owned television…
[ad_1] Libya’s devastated eastern city of Derna is counting its dead as rescuers continue to pull out more bodies from the rubble of the city battered by flash floods that have killed thousands and the Red Cross warning that 10,000 are missing. According to international media reports, an official of the Tripoli-based national unity government…
[ad_1] More than 3,000 people have died from flash flooding caused by Storm Daniel in eastern Libya and 10,000 more are missing after entire neighbourhoods were swept away, according to officials. According to international media reports, the health minister of Libya’s parliament-appointed government, Osman Abdulcelil, told reporters on Tuesday that most of the 3,000 deaths occurred…
[ad_1] The head of Libya’s Government of National Unity Abdul Hamid Dbeibah has suspended the Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush and referred her to investigation, a statement said early on Monday. According to international media reports, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said on Sunday he met with the Libyan Foreign Minister for the first time in…
[ad_1] At least 57 bodies, including those of Pakistanis, have been washed ashore after two migrant boats sank in the Mediterranean off different towns in western Libya, a coast guard officer and an aid worker said on Tuesday. One survivor, Bassam Mahmoud from Egypt, said there were about 80 passengers on one of the boats…
