Libya is Recovering from the Flood Damage – Eight Officials Arrested
Libya finds itself in a dire situation. It is not just the recent floods last week that has weakened its stability it is also facing a deeply heated conflict between a war lord General Khalifah Haftar in the East and the internationally recognized government in the West in Tripoli.1 Experts have attributed climate change to being a factor in the disaster of the floods.2 According to the World Weather Attribution (WWA) one of the key findings of an attribution analysis was that ‘An event as extreme as the one observed over Libya has become up to 50 times more likely and up to 50% more intense compared to a 1.2℃ cooler climate.”3But a rise in temperatures was not the only factor that led to the disaster that led to the destruction.4 This tragic unfolding was compounded by a ...