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Four more officials held after Libya flood disaster

The New Arab 30 Sep 2023
The four additional suspects, including two members of the Derna municipal council, were arrested for suspected "bad management of the administrative and financial missions which were incumbent upon them", said a statement issued overnight Thursday-Friday by the prosecutor general's office in Tripoli, western Libya.
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Four More Officials Held After Libya Flooding Disaster

Beijing News 30 Sep 2023
The four additional suspects, including two members of the Derna municipal council, were arrested for suspected 'bad management of the administrative and financial missions which were incumbent upon them,' said a statement issued overnight Thursday into Friday by the prosecutor general's office in Tripoli, western Libya.
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4 more officials held after Libya flood disaster

Dawn 29 Sep 2023
The four additional suspects, including two members of the Derna municipal council, were arrested for suspected “bad management of the administrative and financial missions which were incumbent upon them”, said a statement issued overnight Thursday-Friday by the prosecutor general’s office in Tripoli, western Libya.
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Libya says Derna mayor, other officials detained after flood

Khaleejtimes 25 Sep 2023
... general's office said on Monday. The attorney general's office, based in the capital Tripoli, said it had issued orders to detain eight local officials over the collapse of dams in a storm, which unleashed the torrent that swept neighbourhoods into the sea, killing thousands.
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Derna mayor, other officials detained after Libya flood

Middle East Online 25 Sep 2023
... general's office said on Monday. The attorney general's office, based in the capital Tripoli, said it had issued orders to detain eight local officials over the collapse of dams in a storm, which unleashed the torrent that swept neighbourhoods into the sea, killing thousands.
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Libya orders 8 officials arrested after flood: prosecutor

Eye Witness News 25 Sep 2023
TRIPOLI - Libya's prosecutor general on Monday ordered the arrest of eight officials as part of his inquiry into the recent flood disaster which killed thousands, his office said ... Libya is now divided between an internationally-recognised Tripoli-based administration in the west - to which Sur belongs - and another in the flood-struck east.
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Eastern authorities want Libya aid conference in flood-hit Derna

The Jordan Times 24 Sep 2023
There was no immediate reaction from the internationally recognised government in Tripoli nor any details on how the rival administration would accommodate delegates in a city where entire neighbourhoods have been swept away ... And even the office of strongman Khalifa Haftar, the ...
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Libya aid gab slated in flood-hit Derna

Manila Standard 23 Sep 2023
There was no immediate reaction from the internationally recognised government in Tripoli nor any details on how the rival administration would accommodate delegates in a city where entire neighbourhoods have been swept away ... And even the office of strongman Khalifa Haftar, the ...
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When climate change and a failing state collide

Middle East Online 21 Sep 2023
The state audit office in Tripoli acknowledged the dams had not been maintained despite the allocation of funds for that purpose in 2012 and 2013 ... Reuters quoted a “humanitarian source” as saying that authorities in the east have blocked aid coming through the Tripoli government.
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Xinhua Middle East news summary at 2200 GMT, Sept. 20

China.dot.org 20 Sep 2023
President Joe Biden in New York on the sidelines of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, according to a statement from the prime minister's office on Wednesday ... TRIPOLI -- An official from the UN refugee agency on Wednesday called on the international community ...
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Eastern Libya orders journalists out of flood-hit Derna after protests

The Observer 19 Sep 2023
Officials cited health reasons and the fear of an epidemic – a claim denied by the Tripoli-based National Centre of Disease Control ... It is overseen by a government established in parallel to the internationally recognised administration in Tripoli, a 10-hour drive to the west.
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East Libya gov’t plans to isolate worst-hit flood areas in Derna city

Anadolu Agency 18 Sep 2023
According to the UN Humanitarian Office (OCHA), at least 3,958 people have died across Libya due to flooding, revising its previous death toll of 11,300.  ... More than 40,000 people have been displaced across Libya’s northeastern areas by the deadly floods, the UN office said. .
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Derna evacuation likely amid health risks: Libyan Red Crescent

Anadolu Agency 18 Sep 2023
According to the UN Humanitarian Office (OCHA), at least 3,958 people have died across Libya due to flooding, revising its previous death toll of 11,300 ... More than 40,000 people have been displaced across Libya’s northeastern areas by the deadly floods, the UN office said.
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The US Has Blood on Its Hands in the Libyan Flood

GlobalResearch 18 Sep 2023
Instead, the country is divided into east and west, with two separate governments, neither of which have been voted into office by the people. In the west, there is the Tripoli based Government of National Unity, a misnomer ... On the day Tripoli fell, the New York Times’ headline read, “The Scramble for Access to Libya’s Oil Wealth Begins”.
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Libya flood survivors face polluted drinking water, displaced landmines

RTE 18 Sep 2023
Derna is located in eastern Libya - a part of the country controlled by military commander Khalifa Haftar and overseen by a government established in parallel to the internationally recognised administration in Tripoli, in the west. The United Nations Office for the Coordination ...
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