Recovery and rebuilding efforts hampered by country’s chaotic and fractured politics
The death toll in Derna – where two dams collapsed, worsening floods that swept away buildings, roads and bridges – has reached 5,100, according to the Ambulance and Emergency Center in Libya. The administration that runs eastern Libya similarly put the toll so far at 5,300.
Last year a report published in a journal of Libya’s Sebha University had warned about poor maintenance of the city’s dam. Libya has been fractured and chaotic since former dictator Muammar Gadafy was ousted by a 2011 popular uprising that morphed into civil war and drew the intervention of Nato. Derna, a city of 100,000 people west of Benghazi, has endured many of the worst aspects of the chaos.
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