Mediterranean storm Daniel collapsed two dams in eastern Libya, allowing 20-foot waves to breach the port city of Derna. Before the storm, there were already over 300,000 people in Libya who were in need of humanitarian aid,” Gelsdorf said. Among his many roles at UVA, Petri serves as the Wade Hampton Professor of Medicine and performs on-the-ground health research and outreach in foreign nations. Dams Serve as Cautionary ReminderRight away, Libya will need an extraordinary influx of funds to cover its most pressing human needs. Then it will need more, to cover the costs of reliable infrastructure that will prevent such floods in the future.

Source: Libya Today September 18, 2023 20:08 UTC