LIBYA’S DERNA UNIVERSITY STAFF AND STUDENTS RALLY TO OVERCOME HUGE LOSSES OF LIFE AFTER FLOOD DISASTER
March 18th, 2024
Staff and students at Derna University, in eastern Libya, have rallied to repair an institution devastated by floods that tore through its home city and port Derna last September 11. The torrents, for example, seriously damaged the university faculty of education building, while killing 12 faculty professors and 28 members of university staff, with 286 students officially declared dead. More causalities are suspected, but whose bodies remain undiscovered.
The floods were prompted by heavy rains and the burst of dams left unrepaired during the chaos that has ...
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