{"id":430,"date":"2023-09-19T07:49:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T11:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/derna-mayors-house-burnt-down-in-protests\/19\/09\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-09-19T07:49:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T11:49:29","slug":"derna-mayors-house-burnt-down-in-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/derna-mayors-house-burnt-down-in-protests\/19\/09\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Derna mayor&#8217;s house burnt down in protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The mayor&#8217;s home in the Libyan city of Derna has been burnt to the ground, as hundreds of protesters demanded answers for last week&#8217;s catastrophic flood.<\/p>\n<p>They gathered on Monday evening at the city&#8217;s landmark Sahaba Mosque, some crying and chanting for top officials in Libya&#8217;s eastern government to be sacked.<\/p>\n<p>More than 10,000 people are officially missing after two old and dilapidated dams burst, flooding the city.<\/p>\n<p>At least 4,000 people have died.<\/p>\n<p>The home of Derna&#8217;s mayor, Abdulmenam al-Ghaithi, has become a focal point for people&#8217;s anger.<\/p>\n<p>Residents say they were not sufficiently warned by officials, who they believe must have known a huge amount of rainfall was coming.<\/p>\n<p>They say they were also given a stay-at-home warning rather than told to evacuate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-66822837?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:although officials deny this;elm:context_link;itc:0\" class=\"link \">although officials deny this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since the ousting of long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi, Libya has been riven by power struggles and currently has two governments &#8211; a UN-recognised one based in Tripoli, and another in the country&#8217;s east backed by warlord Gen Khalifa Haftar.<\/p>\n<p>He has been calling the flooding a natural disaster but many analysts disagree, saying the eastern government failed to maintain the dams despite prior warnings about their fragile condition.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators want more aid than what is already coming in from the rest of the country and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>And with their most vital possessions washed away by the water, they also want processing facilities set up to replace lost passports and identity documents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/libya-flood-derna-mayors-house-111610930.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor&rsquo;s home in the Libyan city of Derna has been burnt to the ground, as hundreds of protesters demanded answers for<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/derna-mayors-house-burnt-down-in-protests\/19\/09\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}