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    Libyans pick up the pieces after devastating floods – photo essay

    Sep 25, 2023 4 minutes

    Almost two weeks after the Libyan port city of Derna was devastated by floods, Hassan Ben Faid sits on the floor of a secondary school classroom that will, for the foreseeable future, be his home.

    A pen in hand, he starts drawing his house and then, stroke after stroke, the rising levels of water, the dead and the drowning.

    • Hassan Ben Faid, seven, at the secondary school classroom with a Red Crescent worker.

    “The water came fast and we escaped to the roof. I was so afraid,” he says, his voice loud and clear. Hassan is only seven years old, but, sitting next to his

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