Volunteers from Misrata, Tripoli and Benghazi were distributing clothes and food packages. Read more at straitstimes.com.
DERNA - Libyans from across the fragmented country have driven through old front lines regardless of bitter enmities to deliver aid toInside Derna, where a torrent washed away whole districts on Sunday night after two dams collapsed under storm floods, volunteers from Misrata, Tripoli and Benghazi were distributing clothes and food packages on Wednesday and Thursday.
Biltrees hired buses and vans to bring more than 100 volunteers from western parts of Libya to the far eastern city of Derna early on Monday, embarking on a 15-hour drive even before the full scale of the disaster was clear. The two rival administrations have - tentatively - coordinated on some issues. Ministers from the Tripoli-based government visited the eastern city of Benghazi on Thursday.
A humanitarian source involved in the relief effort said eastern authorities had barred foreign aid flowing to Derna through the internationally recognised Tripoli government, whose legitimacy the eastern administration rejects. "When you start to talk about the issues of reconstruction and financial support, this will aggravate all the faultlines in Libya," Mr Eaton said.
Mr Haftar mounted a 14-month campaign to capture the capital Tripoli from 2019-20, an offensive that destroyed swathes of the city and was resisted by western armed factions.