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Libya's National Stability Gov Prepares for Int’l Conference for Derna Reconstruction

Committee of the National Stability during its visit to Derna to prepare for the international conference (National Stability government)
Committee of the National Stability during its visit to Derna to prepare for the international conference (National Stability government)
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Libya's National Stability Gov Prepares for Int’l Conference for Derna Reconstruction

Committee of the National Stability during its visit to Derna to prepare for the international conference (National Stability government)
Committee of the National Stability during its visit to Derna to prepare for the international conference (National Stability government)

Libya's Government of National Stability, headed by Osama Hammad, announced that it would move forward and unilaterally establish an international conference for the reconstruction of Derna after the devastating Hurricane Daniel.

The Hammad government, which does not enjoy international recognition, said that the preparatory committee visited Derna on Friday.

The committee toured the venue for the conference and saw the preparations and progress made.

It thanked the Libyan National Army (LNA), led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, and the head and members of the Military Security Chamber for providing all the facilities that would ensure the conference's success.

The conference is scheduled for Nov 1 and 2 in Derna and Benghazi, east of the country.

Meanwhile, local media reported the arrival of Turkish aid to Tobruk port, carrying humanitarian relief after the hurricane affected several areas.

Director of the Emergency Medicine and Support Center Mohammad Kaplan announced in a brief statement the recovery of 38 bodies of victims who were missing after the storm.

Furthermore, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan informed the head of the interim unity government, Abdulhamid Dbeibeh, of his country's readiness to contribute to the reconstruction of Derna and neighboring towns.

Also, Salah Badi, one of the most prominent leaders of the armed militias in Misrata, said foreign forces have 48 hours to leave the Air College in Misrata.

However, local media quoted sources as saying that foreign military officials at the Misrata military air base refused to meet Badi. They informed Dbeibeh that whoever "crosses the red line" towards the base would be a legitimate target.

In 2018, the US, UK, and France imposed sanctions on Badi, accusing him of working to undermine the political solution in Libya and being involved in the clashes that took place in Tripoli that year, killing at least 120, mostly civilians.

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US Announces $200 Mn Additional Aid for Sudan

The war in Sudan has killed tens of thousands and displaced more than 11 million. AFP/File
The war in Sudan has killed tens of thousands and displaced more than 11 million. AFP/File
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US Announces $200 Mn Additional Aid for Sudan

The war in Sudan has killed tens of thousands and displaced more than 11 million. AFP/File
The war in Sudan has killed tens of thousands and displaced more than 11 million. AFP/File

The United States on Thursday announced $200 million of new funding for the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, bringing Washington's commitment to $2.3 billion, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday.
Sudan has been ravaged by 20 months of fighting between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and the African country has been identified as one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters, AFP reported.
The World Food Program warned Thursday that Sudan risks becoming the world's largest hunger crisis in recent history, with 1.7 million people across the country either facing famine or at risk of famine.
"We see too many Sudanese faces hunger, despair," Blinken said at a UN Security Council meeting on Sudan.
He lamented that political and military crises have "derailed Sudan's transition to democracy and unleashed what is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world."
"The United States has worked intensively with partners to provide relief to Sudan... today we are announcing another roughly $200 million," he added, noting that in some parts of Sudan, people are forced to eat grass and peanut shells to survive.
OCHA operations director Edem Wosornu told the Security Council $4.2 billion would be needed to support the needs of Sudan's people next year.
Fraction of aid need met
"The volume of humanitarian aid reaching people in need remains a fraction of what is required," Wosornu told the Council.
"Ultimately, the only way to end this cycle of violence, death and destruction is for this Council to rise to the challenge of delivering lasting peace in Sudan."
Nearly all of the vast Darfur region of western Sudan is now controlled by the RSF, which has also taken over swathes of the neighboring Kordofan region as well as much of the center of the country.
The regular army retains control of the north and east, while the capital Khartoum and its surrounding cities are a battleground between the warring parties.
As fighting rages on the ground, 10 Sudanese civilians were killed and 20 wounded in paramilitary shelling of North Darfur's besieged capital El-Fasher that hit the city's main hospital and other areas on Wednesday.
The war has killed tens of thousands and displaced more than 11 million, creating what the United Nations describes as one of the worst humanitarian disasters in recent memory.
Both the army and the RSF have been accused of indiscriminately bombing medical facilities and civilians, as well as deliberate attacks on residential areas.
"Footage abounds of forms of brutality that defy human consciousness and no person should have to bear witness to," Shayna Lewis, a Sudan expert at the non-governmental group Preventing and Ending Mass Atrocities, told the council.
"But this Council must demonstrate through action that the imperiled lives of 49 million Sudanese will not be abandoned to the whims of armed men."