“#NorthAfrica is not immune to #ClimateChange, but this is also about #corruption and incompetence. In #Morocco perhaps you had seconds or minutes when the tectonic plates moved, but here in #Libya there was plenty of warning about this hurricane … yet there was no evacuation of #Derna. "
‘Disastrous beyond comprehension’: 10,000 missing after #LibyaFloods | #Floods | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/12/libya-floods-death-toll-dams-burst
"Ten thousand people had been declared missing by official aid agencies such as the Libyan #RedCrescent, but the new, ominous higher estimate of 20,000 deaths came from the director of Al-Bayda Medical Center, Abdul Rahim Maziq.
Corpses still litter the street, and drinkable water is in short supply" #LibyaFloods #Floods
‘Sea is constantly dumping bodies’: fears #Libya flood death toll may hit 20,000
Experts estimate that 30 million cubic metres of water were released when the dams broke, equivalent to 12,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools. #LibyaFloods
Why did #Derna’s dams break when #StormDaniel hit #Libya?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/13/why-did-dernas-dams-break-when-storm-daniel-hit-libya
#Derna Mayor Abdulmenam al-Ghaithi told Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television the estimated number of deaths in the city could reach between 18,000 to 20,000 based on the number of districts destroyed by the flood. #LibyaFloods
Death toll in #Libya’s Derna flooding could reach 20,000: Mayor
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/13/libyans-search-for-families-after-catastrophic-flood-kill-thousands
#Libya’s attorney general has been asked by senior politicians to launch an urgent inquiry into the catastrophic #floods that have killed tens of thousands of people, including into allegations local officials imposed a curfew on the night #StormDaniel struck, causing the collapse of two badly maintained dams. #LibyaFloods
Libyans call for inquiry as fury grows over death toll from catastrophic floods
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/14/libya-call-for-inquiry-fury-death-toll-catastrophic-floods
The #UN’s World Meteorological Organization chief Petteri Taalas said many deaths could have been avoided if #EarlyWarning and #EmergencyManagement systems had functioned properly in the war-scarred country. #LibyaFloods
Flooding death toll soars to 11,300 in #Libya’s coastal city of #Derna
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/15/flooding-death-toll-soars-to-11300-in-libyas-coastal-city-of-derna
#Libya’s general prosecutor, Al-Sediq al-Sour, said prosecutors would investigate the collapse of the #dams, which were built in the 1970s, as well as the allocation of maintenance funds. He said prosecutors would investigate local authorities in the city, as well as previous governments. #LibyaFloods #Floods
#Libyaflood: investigation opened as hopes of finding survivors fade
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/16/second-humanitarian-crisis-feared-in-wake-of-libya-floods-as-hopes-of-finding-survivors-fade
"The devastating flooding brought by #StormDaniel was exacerbated by poor infrastructure in #Libya, which was plunged into turmoil after a #NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moamer #Kadhafi in 2011.
Questions are being asked as to why the disaster was not prevented, when cracks in the dams have been known about since 1998." #LibyaFloods
#UN confirms death toll at least 11,300 in Libya’s flood-hit #Derna
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230917-aid-arrives-as-libya-copes-with-flooding-aftermath
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