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    Libya: Mental health support needed after Storm Daniel destroys Derna
    Libya
    Libya: Mental health support needed after Storm Daniel destroys Derna
    Two weeks after Storm Daniel caused devastating floods that engulfed Derna and killed thousands in a few hours, search and rescue operations are about...
    Natural disasters
    Emergency response
    Mental health
    Libya: Doctors Without Borders prepares for medical response in Derna
    Libya
    Libya: Doctors Without Borders prepares for medical response in Derna
    As Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Libya begin medical activities in the cities of Derna and Susah one week after th...
    Natural disasters
    Emergency response
    Libya: Doctors Without Borders teams assess needs in Storm Daniel aftermath
    Libya
    Libya: Doctors Without Borders teams assess needs in Storm Daniel aftermath
    A Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team has arrived on 13 September 2023 evening from Misrata to Tobruk, east Libya and is due...
    Natural disasters
    Emergency response
    Hundreds of migrants detained after mass arrests in Tripoli
    Libya
    Hundreds of migrants detained after mass arrests in Tripoli
    “More than 600 migrants,asylum seekers and refugees,peacefullydemonstratingforrelocation,protection, and evacuation fromLibya werearrested andmovedto ...
    Refugees
    Libya: Thousands detained and many others left without medical care after five days of mass arrests
    Libya
    Libya: Thousands detained and many others left without medical care after five days of mass arrests
    Numbers of migrants and refugees held in detention centres in the Libyan city of Tripoli have risen dramatically – to more than threefold - over the p...
    Refugees
    130 feared dead in shipwreck off coast of Libya
    Libya
    130 feared dead in shipwreck off coast of Libya
    Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is outraged about yet another humanitarian tragedy that occurred in the central Mediterranean o...
    Refugees
    Libya: One dead and two injured in shooting in Tripoli detention centre
    Libya
    Libya: One dead and two injured in shooting in Tripoli detention centre
    Tripoli, Libya – One person was killed and two were injured in the early hours of 8 April after a shooting took place in a Tripoli detention centre wh...
    Refugees
    Failed COVID-19 response drives Brazil to humanitarian catastrophe
    Brazil
    Failed COVID-19 response drives Brazil to humanitarian catastrophe
    More than 12 months into Brazil’s COVID-19 emergency, there is still no effective, centralised and coordinated public health response to the outbreak....
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)