Amid the soaring death toll there have been some positive signs that Libya’s warring rival governments have put aside their differences to deal with the crisis.
, like what happened globally with Ukraine. Yes, these are very important crises to support, but Libya is no less important than them,” he said.International aid organizations have put out calls on Wednesday for funds to deal with the huge numbers of people displaced.
Libya is already filled with people “who are already living in precarious circumstances,” said Margaret Harris, a spokesperson for the World Health Organization, or WHO, who described the flooding to be of “epic proportions.” Libya has also become a “key springboard” for migrants from over 40 countries hoping to take the perilous sea route to Europe; these migrants have most likely been severely impacted by the floods, the International Organization for Migration warned.The civil war that has raged in the country since the fall of Gaddafi has forced the population to suffer through intermittent fighting as political stalemates and uneasy cease-fires were peppered with outburst of violence.
Derna in particular is one of the more marginalized parts of the coastal region and was the scene of major fighting in 2018 and 2019 between Hifter’s forces local Islamist militants that left substantial destruction.Libya is rife with corruption and political instability, and life in the country is marred with unpredictability in policy and a general lack of access to good-quality infrastructure.
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