In 2007, Muammar Gaddafi, then ruler of Libya, hired Turkish contractor Arsel Construction Company to carry out the repair work and build a third dam. The company’s website said work began on ...

On September 10, Storm Daniel made landfall in eastern Libya, triggering torrential rain in the hills above Derna. Abu Mansur dam, 13 kilometres (just over nine miles) from the city, whose ...

[AFP] Twelve people were convicted on Sunday in Libya's eastern city of Derna over their role in "managing dam facilities" during last year's deadly floods, the general prosecutor's office said in ...

Bodies recovered from a devastating flood which wiped out parts of the port city of Derna in eastern Libya have been buried ... through Derna on Sunday after a dam burst during Storm Daniel.