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September 2023 - Libya Special Weapons News
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- More than 16,000 children are displaced following Libya floods - UNICEF UNICEF 28 Sep 2023 -- More than 16,000 children are displaced in eastern Libya following Africa's deadliest storm in recorded history, UNICEF warned today. Their psychosocial wellbeing is at stake. Many more children are affected due to lack of essential services, such as health, schooling and safe water supply.
- Libya floods: 'Tragedy is not over' warns UNICEF UN News 28 Sep 2023 -- More than 16,000 children are displaced in eastern Libya following Africa's deadliest storm in recorded history the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Thursday, highlighting the urgent need for psychosocial care.
- Libya: High Representative Josep Borell met with UN Special Representative Abdoulaye Bathily European External Action Service (EEAS) 28 Sep 2023 -- Today, EU High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell met with Abdoulaye Bathily, the UN Secretary General's Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL).
- The UK calls for political solutions to end the exploitation and abuse of migrants and refugees in Libya: UK statement at the UN Security Council UK FCDO 28 Sep 2023 -- Statement by Deputy Political Coordinator Thomas Phipps at the UN Security Council meeting on international peace and security.
- Two weeks since floods in eastern Libya, UN teams remain on the ground, providing humanitarian assistance and supporting early recovery UNOCHA 27 Sep 2023 -- Two weeks since devastating floods in northeastern Libya claimed several thousand lives and ravaged entire neighbourhoods, the United Nations and its partners remain on the ground and continue to provide critical humanitarian assistance and support to affected people in Derna, Benghazi, Al Bayda, Shahat and Soussa.
- Libyans 'rise above old wounds' and divisions after extreme floods, says Youth Minister UN News 20 Sep 2023 -- Fatalla Elzuni, Libya's Minister of Youth, in an address on Thursday to the UN General Assembly, expressed deep sympathy and offered his condolences to Libyans "in the throes of a disastrous tragedy" following the devastating rains and floods that hit the east of the country last week.
- Residents of Libya's Derna Blame Government for Flood Disaster VOA 21 Sep 2023 -- When protests whirled by his home early this week, Khalid Alkowash, 42, a local government worker in Derna, Libya was concerned but not surprised.
- Informal Consultations on Supporting Libya's Political Process on the Margins of the U.N. General Assembly US Dept. of State 20 Sep 2023 -- Representatives from Algeria, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Qatar, Türkiye, the UAE, the UK, the UN, and the United States held informal consultations yesterday, with participation of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Libya Abdoulaye Bathily, focused on promoting the political consensus needed for successful Libyan elections.
- UNHCR scales up humanitarian response in flood-ravaged eastern Libya as tens of thousands are newly displaced UNHCR 20 Sep 2023 -- UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and its teams in Libya are scaling up operations to respond to the fast-growing needs of thousands of internally displaced people, refugees and others affected by the devastating floods caused by Storm Daniel.
- Libya floods aftermath: Response continues amid the wreckage UN News 18 Sep 2023 -- UN teams are working tirelessly to deliver vital assistance to communities devastated by the unprecedented floods that hit eastern Libya.
- Statement from President Joe Biden Announcing Additional Humanitarian Support to Libya After Floods The White House 18 Sep 2023
- UK ramps up vital life-saving support for Libya UK FCDO 16 Sep 2023 -- The UK has ramped up crucial life-saving support to flood-hit Libya, allocating increased funding and deploying an essential emergency medical team.
- Libyan Red Crescent: Flooding death toll tops 11,000, another 10,000 missing Press TV 16 Sep 2023 -- The death toll from devastating floods in eastern Libya has reached 11,000, the Libyan Red Crescent says, with thousands reportedly still missing, as search and rescue teams continue.
- Morocco and Libya: UN scales up support for disaster relief UN News 15 Sep 2023 -- Two very different catastrophes in Morocco and in Libya united by the "unimaginable trauma" of bereaved families, continue to mobilize the UN's relief efforts, the Organisation's top aid official Martin Griffiths said on Friday.
- Agencies Issue Guidance as Libyan Residents Fear Flooding Health Risks VOA 15 Sep 2023 -- As rescue efforts continue in Libya, international health agencies issued a statement Friday on the rush to bury bodies because of fears of a health crisis in the aftermath of Sunday's catastrophic flooding.
- Analysts: Effect of Libya's Killer Storm Made Worse by Decade of Conflict VOA 15 Sep 2023 -- Just hours after epic storm Daniel dumped torrential rains on Libya's coast, breaching dams and killing thousands, some called it perhaps the deadliest and costliest Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone ever recorded.
- Libyan authorities say floods may have killed 20,000 people Press TV 14 Sep 2023 -- Libyan authorities have demanded an investigation to see if the catastrophe that recently unfolded amid floods in the country killing thousands was caused by a human blunder.
- Nearly 300,000 children affected in Libya after Storm Daniel devastates entire communities - UNICEF UNICEF 14 Sep 2023 -- Nearly 300,000 children are estimated to have been exposed to the powerful Storm Daniel across eastern Libya and a growing number of children and families are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance, following significant damage to numerous homes, hospitals, schools, and other essential infrastructure.
- Search-and-Rescue Crews Work in Flood-Hit Eastern Libya VOA 14 Sep 2023 -- Search-and-rescue teams worked Thursday in eastern Libya, where devastating floods left thousands of people dead and thousands more missing.
- World Food Programme rolls out food assistance to families affected by Storm Daniel in Libya WFP 14 Sep 2023 -- The World Food Programme (WFP) has begun providing desperately needed food assistance to more than 5,000 families displaced by massive flooding in Libya. Entire neighbourhoods in the city of Derna have disappeared, along with many of their residents, after flood waters from Storm Daniel caused two ageing dams to collapse.
- Libya floods: UN providing aid as disaster response team deploys UN News 13 Sep 2023 -- The UN system is providing aid to areas in eastern Libya impacted by the weekend floods and a disaster assessment team has been deployed to support government response and relief operations, the UN said on Wednesday.
- More Than 6,000 Believed Dead in Libya Floods, 10,000 Missing VOA 13 Sep 2023 -- The raging floods in Libya have killed more than 6,000 people, with another 10,000 reported missing, swept out to the Mediterranean Sea or buried under rubble, authorities said Wednesday.
- Flooding leaves thousands dead, missing in eastern Libya after dams collapse Press TV 12 Sep 2023 -- At least 2,000 people have been killed and thousands more are missing after a devastating flood hit the city of Derna in eastern Libya, resulting in the collapse of two dams, authorities say.
- Libya: Humanitarian response ramps up as floods of 'epic proportions' leave thousands dead UN News 12 Sep 2023 -- UN agencies and partners are responding to the disaster unfolding in eastern Libya after extreme rainfall caused devastating flooding and loss of life over the weekend, humanitarians told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday.
- Deadly Floods in Libya Leave 10,000 Missing VOA 12 Sep 2023 -- Some 10,000 people were reported missing and more than 2,000 were confirmed dead in Libya's eastern city of Derna after severe flooding reduced entire neighborhoods to muddy rubble.
- Libyan Officials Say Floods Kill at Least 2,000 After Storm Daniel VOA 12 Sep 2023 -- Officials in eastern Libya say at least 2,000 people are dead and several thousand others missing after two dams collapsed in the eastern coastal city of Derna, sweeping away large chunks of the city and leaving outlying regions under water. The dams collapsed under pressure from Storm Daniel, which wreaked havoc across eastern Libya Sunday.
- Deadly Floods Hit Libya Following Powerful Storm VOA 11 Sep 2023 -- The international Red Crescent humanitarian group says at least 150 people are dead in Libya, with reports of hundreds more feared dead, as torrential rains from the powerful Mediterranean Storm Daniel swept through the eastern part of the country Sunday and Monday.
- Libya's prosecutor to probe secret meeting with Israel FM Press TV 04 Sep 2023 -- Libya's chief prosecutor has set up a fact-finding mission to probe a recent secret meeting between the country's foreign minister and her Israeli counterpart that was publicized last week.
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