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In spite of the crisis, Libya maintains one of the highest human development index (HDI) rankings among countries in Africa. [81] [82] The war has caused a significant loss of economic potential in Libya, estimated at 783.2 billion Libyan dinars from 2011 to 2021. [83] By 2022, the humanitarian situation had improved, though challenges remain. [84]
Libyan interim Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib. On 23 October 2011, the National Transitional Council officially declared that Libya had been liberated. [12]Libya's de facto Prime Minister, Mahmoud Jibril announced that consultations were under way to form an interim government within one month, followed by elections for a constitutional assembly within eight months and parliamentary and ...
Thousands of people were killed, with thousands more missing in devastating floods that hit Libya's Derna after Storm Daniel, fueled by civil war, corruption, climate change and neglect.
The sides agree a formal ceasefire and the U.N. convenes Libyan politicians and civil society in Tunis for a new peacemaking effort that aims at holding national elections the following year. 2021 ...
Libya's GDP per capita , human development index, and literacy rate were better than in Egypt and Tunisia, whose Arab Spring revolutions preceded the outbreak of protests in Libya. [78] Libya's corruption perception index in 2010 was 2.2, ranking 146th out of 178 countries, worse than that of Egypt (ranked 98th) and Tunisia (ranked 59th). [79]
Yahoo News asked Ricardo Pires, a spokesperson for UNICEF, the United Nations’ humanitarian aid agency three questions about what caused the situation in Libya and how such tragedies can be ...
The military intervention in Libya has been cited by the Council on Foreign Relations as an example of the responsibility to protect policy adopted by the UN at the 2005 World Summit. [230] According to Gareth Evans , "[t]he international military intervention (SMH) in Libya is not about bombing for democracy or Muammar Gaddafi's head.
(Reuters) - A catastrophic flood has killed thousands of people in the eastern Libyan city of Derna, sweeping away entire neighbourhoods with their residents and washing many bodies out to sea.