‘Magnitude of crisis’ exacerbated by Libya’s failing infrastructure due to ‘ten years of conflict’

On Sunday afternoon, Storm Daniel made landfall on Libya’s east coast after earlier lashing Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. It touched Benghazi before veering towards the Jabal al-Akhdar district towns of Shahat, Al-Marj, Al-Bayda, Susa and Derna, devastating that city of 100,000 people. Overnight, two dams on Wadi Derna burst, unleashing torrents of water that destroyed bridges and swept away entire neighbourhoods before spilling into the Mediterranean. For more on the on-going search and rescue efforts and emergency health services in the wake of the devastation wreaked by the powerful Mediterranean storm Daniel, FRANCE 24’s Kethevane Gorjestani is joined by Mey Al Sayegh, Head Of Communications at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies – (IFRC).