GENEVA (AA) – Providing shelter, food, and medical supplies to people in Libya and Morocco who survived two massive lethal natural disasters is the top priority, the UN’s humanitarian affairs chief has said. Speaking at a UN press conference about the earthquake that struck Morocco on September 8 and the devastating floods in Libya on [&...
GENEVA (AA) – The use of advanced warning systems would have lessened the casualties and damage caused by the recent devastating floods in Libya, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has said. “If there had been advanced warning we could have avoided most of the human casualties in Libya,” Petteri Taalas, the WMO’...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN aid chief has announced $10 million from the UN’s emergency fund for Libya, where thousands have been killed in devastating floods. “I immediately released $10 million from the UN’s emergency fund CERF, and an appeal for additional support is on its way,” Martin Griffiths said in a statement t...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – The Libyan House of Representatives has approved an emergency budget of 10 billion Libyan dinars ($2 billion) in order to mitigate the destruction caused by Storm Daniel. The motion was approved in an emergency session in Benghazi, lawmaker Mohamed Tamer informed the media. The budget will be allocated for “re...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – The health situation in Libya is catastrophic following a Mediterranean rainstorm and devastating floods, with dead bodies still lying out in the open in many areas, a Libyan health official has said. “The health situation in areas hit by floods is catastrophic, especially in the city of Derna,” the official request...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UN aid agency, OCHA, on Thursday called for $71.4 million to respond to the most urgent needs of thousands of people affected by the deadly floods in Libya. “The scale of the flood disaster is ‘shocking’ with entire neighborhoods having been wiped off the map and whole families, taken by […]
Derna, Libya – AFP Libya’s eastern city of Derna was counting its dead Wednesday after devastating flash floods unleashed by Storm Daniel with the Red Cross warning that 10,000 are missing. Two river dams burst after the storm hit on Sunday afternoon, releasing an enormous surge of water that tore through the Mediterranean coastal ...
Geneva, Switzerland – – AFP Three Red Crescent volunteers have died while helping victims of devastating freak floods in the eastern Libya, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said. “Heartbreaking news from Libya. Three volunteers from (the Libya Red Crescent) lost their lives while on duty he...
ANKARA (AA) – The EU has offered assistance to Libya, where catastrophic floods after Storm Daniel have killed over 5300 people. “Harrowing images from Libya following deaths & destruction caused by floods, especially in the East of the country,” EU Council chief Charles Michel wrote on X, and expressed the EU’s ...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – At least 5,300 people have been killed by devastating floods in Libya’s eastern city of Derna, the country’s Ambulance and Emergency Service has said. “Around 5,000 other people have gone missing after the floods,” Osama Ali, a spokesman for the service, told the media. Libyan officials estimate that more than 5,300...
