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The eastern Libyan government announced Wednesday that an international conference on the reconstruction of flood-ravaged Derna has commenced.

An international conference on reconstruction of one of Libya’s coastal cities, decimated in a fatal flood in September, began Wednesday, one of Libya's rival governments announced. In the early hours of Sept. 11, two dilapidated dams in the mountains above the eastern city of Derna collapsed, sending floodwaters roaring down the Wadi Derna river and through the city center, sweeping away entire city blocks. Government officials and aid agencies have given estimated death tolls ranging fr...

There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But parliamentary speaker Aguila Saleh said the bombs appeared to have been in retaliation for…

Even as Yemen’s slow-burning civil war has disappeared from the news of the day, the parallel crisis of extreme weather continues to batter a country more often spotlighted for the spectre of famine.

The Volta River Authority (VRA) on September 15, 2023, began controlled spilling at the Akosombo and Kpong Dams as a result of too much water in both reservoirs. A rough estimate of 26,000 people, as of October 17, 2023, had been displaced as a result of the spillage. Since the construction of the Akosombo Dam, which receives water from six separate tributaries, this is the largest magnitude of displacement and volume recorded.

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OccupyGhana Calls For Commission Of Inquiry To Probe Akosombo Dam Spillage

VARIOUS views have been expressed by journalists in the international press on both issues in my title of this column, which concerns the earthquake in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco on Sept 8 and a few days later the floodwaters from Wadi Derna on the east Libya Mediterranean coast. More th

Press Release Regarding the Visit of Ambassador His Excellency Mr. Ahmet Yildiz, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, to Libya

Brought in by the nonprofit developer Homewise Inc. to deliver the final lecture in the organizations Livability Speaker Series, Bill McKibben presented his talk, “Yes in our Backyard: Climate Change