Derna’s Court of Appeal has postponed a trial hearing for a number of officials accused of negligence and corruption that allegedly led to the collapse of the city’s dams, which unleashed massive floods that killed at least 4,000 people on September 10.
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Officials of the Derna Reconstruction Fund met today with representatives of French company SIDEM to discuss repair for Derna’s seawater desalination plant.
General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, accompanied by the Prime Minister, Osama Hammad, on Friday toured the flood-hit Derna city to inspect the reconstruction projects implemented by Hammad’s government.
U.S. diplomats, led by Ambassador Richard Norland, has met with Central Bank of Libya (CBL) Governor, Siddiq al-Kabir, to review progress toward a coordinated, transparent approach to funding reconstruction in Derna and other flood-affected areas, with technical support from international institutions, according to Norland.
Libya’s deadly flash flood in September constituted a climate and environmental catastrophe that requires $1.8 billion in reconstruction and recovery, an international report said on Wednesday.
The Executive Director of the Derna Reconstruction Fund, Belqassem Khalifa Haftar, and Prime Minister of parliament-backed government, Osama Hammad, conducted a site inspection to review progress on rehabilitation of the city’s main university.
Libya’s Drug Enforcement Agency branch in Derna announced on Tuesday the arrest of the city’s biggest drug dealer. The suspect…
Chairman of Libya’s High National Elections Commission (HNEC), Imad Al-Sayeh, met on Saturday with Head of the Electoral Administration Office in Derna, Abdullah Al-Shairi, to discuss building a new office for the commission in the city.
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou, in a special ceremony at the Presidential Palace on Friday, posthumously awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix to Angela Moira and Philip Antonis Mandalio, the volunteer interpreters who lost their lives during the Greek humanitarian mission in Libya on September 17, 2023.
Ahmed Al-Attar, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the prominent Egyptian construction firm The Arab Contractors Company, announced that…