Sky News published this video item, entitled “Watch Libya floods: The city swept away” – below is their description.
At least 11,000 people are dead in the Libyan city of Derna – and ten thousand more are still feared missing.
International aid is starting to arrive, but too slowly.
Sky’s Special Correspondent Alex Crawford and Africa Correspondent Yousra Elbagir have the latest live from Derna, reporting on the ongoing aid effort – organised both internationally and by the Libyan community in the UK.
Also, Sky’s Data and Forensics team assess what warnings there were, that a tragedy like this could happen – both in the weather forecast in the days before, and in the maintenance of the dams in the years before.
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Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest.
The sovereign state is made of three historical regions: Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica. The largest city and capital, Tripoli, is located in western Libya and contains over three million of Libya’s seven million people. The second-largest city is Benghazi, which is located in eastern Libya.
Libya became independent as a kingdom in 1951. A military coup in 1969 overthrew King Idris I. Parts of Libya are currently split between rival Tobruk and Tripoli-based governments, as well as various tribal and Islamist militias.
Libya is a member of the United Nations (since 1955), the Non-Aligned Movement, the Arab League, the OIC and OPEC. The country’s official religion is Islam, with 96.6% of the Libyan population being Sunni Muslims.