Libya’s divisions exposed in city laid waste by floods
13 September 2023
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Floods in Libya
Jalel Harchaoui, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for defence and security studies, said: "Derna was despised and marginalised...everybody was ignoring it. The hospital in Derna, a city of 100,000, was...a makeshift hospital that was effectively just a house after years of suffering, and that was before the tragedy."