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The Nigeria soccer team poses for a group photo before the African Cup of Nations final soccer match between Ivory Coast and Nigeria, at the Olympic Stadium of Ebimpe in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File) **FILE**

Nigerian soccer team stranded in airport before international match, alleges ‘mind games’

By Liam Griffin - The Washington Times

Mohsen al-Sheikh, 52, stands in his neighborhood of the city of Derna, Libya, on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024 which was covered in floodwaters a year ago after two dams burst upstream. (AP Photo/Muhammad Elalwany)

A Libyan city scarred by flooding that killed thousands tries to rebuild a year later

By Muhammad Elalwany - Associated Press

A view of a locator map for Libya with its capital, Tripoli. Libyan officials say clashes between two heavily armed militia groups in the country’s capital terrorized residents and killed about a dozen people, the latest bout of violence in the largely lawless North African nation. (AP Photo, File)

Officials say militia infighting kills at least 9 in Libya’s capital

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Libya's Khalifa Hifter, the commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army, is seen at the International Defense Exhibition and Conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. A U.S. judge tossed out a series of civil lawsuits, Friday, April 12, 2024, against Hifter, who used to live in Virginia and was accused of killing innocent civilians in that country's civil war. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

U.S. judge tosses out lawsuits against Libyan commander accused of war crimes

By Matthew Barakat - Associated Press

A migrant is helped evacuate a partially deflated rubber dinghy by the rescue personnel of the SOS Mediterranee humanitarian ship Ocean Viking in the Central Mediterranean Sea, Wednesday, March 12, 2024, Survivors reported that some 50 people who departed Libya with them a week ago had perished during the journey. (Johanna de Tessieres/ SOS Mediterranee via AP, HO)

Survivors of Mediterranean rescue say about 60 people died on the trip from Libya, aid group reports

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, centre left, is greeted by African National Congress supporters as he arrives at the Mose Mabhida stadium in Durban, South Africa, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, for the ANC national manifesto launch in anticipation of the 2024 general elections. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

A string of votes provides stress test for health of African democracy

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times

In this handout photo released by German non-governmental organization Sea-Watch on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea on a rubber boat to Europe are seen during an interception by a Libyan coast guard ship in international waters. A German charity has accused the Libyan coast guard of threatening its crew members who were rescuing migrants (not pictured) in the Mediterranean Sea, causing at least one migrant to drown. (Fiona Alihosi/Sea-Watch via AP)

Libya’s coast guard tried to prevent rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean, a German charity says

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri delivers a speech in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 31, 2009, Shiite Muslim spiritual leader, Imam Moussa Sadr, seen in the picture right, who disappeared on a trip to Libya in 1978. A delegation of Libyan justice officials in Beirut has reopened discussions with Lebanese officials over the fate of a prominent Lebanese cleric who went missing in Libya decades ago and the potential release of late dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s son, who has held without charges in Lebanon since 2015, according to Lebanese officials. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

A Libyan delegation reopens talks in Lebanon on missing cleric, release of Gadhafi’s detained son

By Bassem Mroue and Abby Sewell - Associated Press

FILE - Special Representative of the UN Secretary General to Libya Abdoulaye Bathily speaks during a meeting with Arab Foreign Ministers in the capital of Tripoli, Sunday Jan. 22, 2023. The United Nations’ top official in divided Libya on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, called for a unified mechanism to lead the reconstruction of a coastal city that was wrecked by devastating floods last month. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, File)

U.N. envoy calls for a ‘unified mechanism’ to lead reconstruction of Libya’s flood-wrecked city

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Derna flood survivor Abdul Salam Anwisi looks at the destroyed homes following flooding caused by Mediterranean storm Daniel, in Derna, Libya, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023. Anwisi said he woke up at one-thirty in the morning to a loud scream from outside, to find his neighbours' homes flooded with water. He, his sons and other neighbours rushed to rescue the stranded families by pulling them from the roof of their house. Thousands of Libyans have lost family members, friends and neighbors in the devastating floods that engulfed the country's east. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

Libya’s top prosecutor jails 8 officials for potential negligence in the deadly collapse of dams

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Derna flood survivor Abdul Salam Anwisi cleans his home after flooding caused by Mediterranean storm Daniel, in Derna, Libya, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023. Anwisi said he woke up at one-thirty in the morning to a scream from outside, to find his neighbours' homes flooded with water. He, his sons, and other neighbours rushed to rescue the stranded families by pulling them from the roof of their house. Thousands of Libyans have lost family members, friends and neighbors in the devastating floods that engulfed the country's east. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

Left behind and grieving, survivors of Libya floods call for accountability

By Samy Magdy and Yousef Murad - Associated Press

FILE - People look for survivors after flooding in Derna, Libya, Sept. 13, 2023. The devastating storm that dumped torrential rains along the Libyan coast this month was up to 50 times more likely to occur and 50% more intense because of human-caused climate change, according to an analysis released Tuesday, Sept. 19. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, File)

Communication outage hits flood-stricken city in Libya, further complicating search efforts

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Rescuers and relatives of victims set up tents in front of collapsed buildings in Derna, Libya, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. Some 11,300 people died when two dams collapsed during Mediterranean storm Daniel last week sending a wall of water gushing through the city, according to the Red Crescent aid group. A further 10,000 people are missing, and presumed dead. (AP Photo/Muhammad J. Elalwany)

Libyan leader says flooded city has been divided to create buffers in case of disease outbreaks

Associated Press

A general view of the city of Derna is seen on Sept. 12., 2023. For years, experts warned that floods pose a significant danger to dams protecting nearly 90,000 people in northeast of Libya, repeatedly calling for immediate maintenance to the two structures outside the city of Derna. But successive governments in the divided and chaos-stricken North African nation did not heed their advice. (AP Photo/Jamal Alkomaty, File)

Libya was mired in chaos and corruption. For years, warnings the Derna dams may burst went unheeded

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Construction workers build a bridge linking the eastern and western parts of Derna, which was divided by the dam collapse following recent flooding caused by Mediterranean storm Daniel, in Derna, Libya, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Muhammad J. Elalwany)

UN warns disease outbreak in Libya’s flooded east could spark ‘a second devastating crisis’

By Yousef Marud and Jack Jeffery - Associated Press

Rescue teams search for victims in Derna, Libya, on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023. Libyan authorities have opened an investigation into the collapse of two dams that caused a devastating flood in a Derna as rescue teams searched for bodies on Saturday, nearly a week after the deluge killed more than 11,000 people. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

Road collision kills 4 Greek rescue workers dispatched to flood-stricken Libya, health minister says

Associated Press

Two men hug as people look for survivors in the flooded city of Derna, Libya, Wednesday, Sept.13, 2023. For many Libyans, the disastrous flooding that killed more than 11,000 people have fostered a sense of unity. The collective grief has morphed into a rallying cry of national unity in a country blighted by 12 years of conflict and division. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, File)

For a divided Libya, disastrous floods have become a rallying cry for unity

By Hazem Turika and Jack Jeffery - Associated Press

People look for survivors in Derna, Libya, Wednesday, Sept.13, 2023. Search teams are combing streets, wrecked buildings, and even the sea to look for bodies in Derna, where the collapse of two dams unleashed a massive flash flood that killed thousands of people. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

Dozens of Syrians are among the missing in catastrophic floods in Libya, a war monitor says

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

People search for flood victims in Derna, Libya, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. Search teams are combing streets, wrecked buildings, and even the sea to look for bodies in Derna, where the collapse of two dams unleashed a massive flash flood that killed thousands of people. (AP Photo/Ricardo Garcia Vilanova)

Libya investigates dams’ collapse after a devastating flood last weekend killed more than 11,000

By Samy Magdy and Yousef Mourad - Associated Press

Flooding aftermath is seen in Derna, Libya, Thursday, Sept.14, 2023. Search teams are combing streets, wrecked buildings, and even the sea to look for bodies in Derna, where the collapse of two dams unleashed a massive flash flood that killed thousands of people. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

Libya seals off flooded city so searchers can look for 10,000 missing after death toll passes 11,000

By Yousef Mourad - Associated Press