[AFP] Twelve people were convicted on Sunday in Libya's eastern city of ... over their management of "the country's dam facilities" at a time when the collapse of two dams near the port city ...

Like much of Libya's crumbling infrastructure ... 800 million cubic feet) of water, collapsed first. The deluge then broke Al Bilad, the second dam, which had a capacity of 1.5 million cubic ...

The failure of the dam structures inundated ... A court in Libya on Sunday sentenced 12 current and former officials to terms of up to 27 years in prison over their involvement in the collapse of two ...

An international institute that seeks to improve the safety of reservoirs that store toxic waste from mining known as ...

Libya has been divided between an internationally recognized Tripoli-based administration in the west -- to which Sur belongs -- and another in the flood-struck east. The first dam to collapse in ...

"That could create an impact and a vibration which could trigger the collapse of the dam below." It is a grim assessment for the communities living nearby although hundreds of people in the ...