Aid groups point to growing risk of water-borne diseases amid medicine and food shortages as well as grave difficulties in getting aid to the most needy

Aid groups have warned of the growing risk posed by the spread of disease that could compound the humanitarian crisis in Libya, as hopes of finding more survivors fade days after deadly flooding.

Sunday’s flood submerged the port city of Derna, washing thousands of people and homes out to sea after two upstream dams burst under the pressure of torrential rains triggered by the hurricane-strength storm.

Continue reading…

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

You May Also Like

UK has second highest maternal death rate in eight-country European study

Women in UK three times more likely to die around the time…