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‘So afraid’ After floods, Libyans pick up the pieces

Almost two weeks after the Libyan port city of Derna was devastated by floods, Hassan Ben Faid sat on the floor of a secondary school classroom that will, for the foreseeable future, be his home. A pen in hand, he started drawing his house and then, stroke after stroke, the rising levels of water, the dead and the drowning.

“The water came fast and we escaped

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