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Morocco’s five-year plan to rebuild quake-hit areas will cost the state US$12 billion

Quake-hit Morocco's government announced on Wednesday a budget of more than $11 billion for reconstruction, rehousing and socio-economic development of areas hit by the deadly disaster. The 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit Al-Haouz province south of Marrakesh on September...
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Libya flood: As death toll exceeds 3,300, tens of thousands of people are displaced

Libya's flood disaster, which killed thousands in the city of Derna, also displaced more than 43,000 people, the International Organization for Migration said Thursday. A tsunami-sized flash flood broke through two ageing river dams upstream from the coastal city...
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Libya: Ancient Greco-Roman city of Cyrene faces risk of collapse

Floods that killed thousands in the Libyan city of Derna also inundated one of the country's premier ancient sites, threatening its UNESCO-listed monuments with collapse, a recent visitor and a leading archaeologist said. The immediate damage to the monuments of...
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Libya: Incompetent eastern authorities tighten control on media, block communications access

Communications were severed Tuesday 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 thousands of deaths.  A tsunami-sized flash flood broke through two ageing river dams...
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