WATCH: UN warns of disease threat in flood-hit east Libya

Floods in the port city of Derna, killed nearly 3,300 people and left thousands more missing.

by OOVVUU

Rift-valley19 September 2023 - 17:50

In Summary

• A week after the tragedy, the UN is sounding the alarm over the risk of disease outbreak.

• We talk to Rana Ksaifi, assistant Chief of Mission-Protection for the UN Refugee Agency in Libya who’s just returned from Derna herself.

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The devastating floods in Libya, that washed away large areas of the port city of Derna, killed nearly 3,300 people and left thousands more missing.

A week after the tragedy, the UN is sounding the alarm over the risk of disease outbreak.

We talk to Rana Ksaifi, assistant Chief of Mission-Protection for the UN Refugee Agency in Libya who’s just returned from Derna herself.