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Derna, Libya (AFP) Nov 1, 2023 - More than 260 Libyan and international companies on Wednesday attended a forum in Benghazi organised by the countrys eastern authorities with the hope of rebuilding the flood-ravaged city of Derna.

DERNA: Communications were severed on Tuesday (Sep 19) to the flood-hit Libyan city of Derna and journalists were asked to leave, a day after hundreds protested against authorities they blamed for the thou

DERNA, Libya: Communications were severed on Tuesday to the flood-hit eastern Libyan city of Derna, and journalists were asked to leave, a day after hundreds protested against authorities they blamed for the massive death toll.

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Derna, Libya (AFP) Sept 18, 2023 - Hundreds of protesters rallied in Libyas disaster-hit Derna on Monday, accusing the authorities of neglect after a huge flash flood devastated the coastal city and swept thousands to their deaths.

Many demonstrators, still reeling from the devastation caused by Storm Daniel, chanted anti-government slogans as they gathered outside Derna's grand mosque.

Telephone and internet links were severed Tuesday to Libyas flood-hit city of Derna, a day after hundreds protested there against local authorities they blamed for the thousands of deaths.

Telephone and internet links were severed Tuesday to Libya's flood-hit city of Derna, a day after hundreds protested there against local authorities they blamed for the thousands of deaths.A tsunami-sized flash flood broke through two ageing river dams upstream from the city on the night of September 10 and razed entire neighbourhoods, sweeping untold thousands into the Mediterranean Sea.

Protesters demanded the start of the city's reconstruction, compensation for affected residents and a probe into the current city council and previous budgets

Conflicting death tolls have been reported – local authorities put the number at 3,166, while the WHO says the bodies of 3,958 people have been recovered.