Libyans pick up the pieces after devastating floods – photo essay

In the two weeks since floods struck the Libyan port city of Derna, the photojournalist Stefanie Glinski has been on the ground speaking to victims of the disaster alongside rescue workers struggling to deal with the devastation

Almost two weeks after the Libyan port city of Derna was devastated by floods, Hassan Ben Faid sits on the floor of a secondary school classroom that will, for the foreseeable future, be his home.

A pen in hand, he starts drawing his house and then, stroke after stroke, the rising levels of water, the dead and the drowning.

Hassan Ben Faid, seven, at the secondary school classroom with a Red Crescent worker.

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