“We were hoping for better,” says Mohamad Azouz, a disaster-stricken resident a year after the terrible floods devastated Derna, a city in eastern Libya. On the night of September 10-11, 2023, Storm Daniel hit the Libyan east coast, causing flooding, amplified by the failure of two upstream dams. According to the UN, the tragedy killed some 4,000 people with more than 40,000 displaced. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES