The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, has allocated 92.8 million dinars to repair 117 schools and educational facilities in 15 cities and districts that are ravaged by floods following Storm Daniel’s landfall on September 11 in the eastern region.
Dbeibah’s decision would allow the contractual process to commence for the repairing work as per a timeline, allocating 42 million dinars out of the total budget to Derna, which was hit the hardest by floods.
Meanwhile, Al-Bayda would receive 13 million dinars, while three million were allocated to Um Al-Razim, over two million to Al-Qubba and more than a million dinars to Al-Abraq.
“Al-Gigab, Shahat would have eight million dinars, Al-Abraq, Soussa about two million, Radama, Omar Al-Mukhtar and Al-Sahel five million, Al-Marj five million.” The decision says.
Storm Daniel and ensuing floods hit eastern coastal cities, especially Derna, Al-Bayda and Al-Marj, on September 10 and 11. Two dams collapsed in Derna valley – an area locally known as Wadi Derna -, washing away entire neighborhoods and killing a number of entire families. The flood torrent obliterated around a quarter or the Mediterranean city of Derna, leaving thousands dead and missing.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday that its latest Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) had registered around 40,018 individuals who remained displaced after Storm Daniel made landfall in northeastern Libya on 11 September 2023 with some households reportedly moving back home.
The spokesman for the High Committee for Emergency and Rapid Response of the government designated by the House of Representatives (HoR), Mohammed El Jarih, announced on September 24 that 3,868 people had been officially registered as deaths caused by floods, saying in a press conference that this number would likely increase.
