Once a popular seaside resort, Derna has been devastated flooding caused by Storm Daniel.
AP Photo/Jamal Alkomaty
There are signs that the two rival governments are trying to work together in the disaster relief effort.
Cry freedom: pro-democracy protesters in Tahrir Square in Cairo calling for the ousting of Egypt’s dictator Hosni Mubarak.
EPA/Khaled Elfiqi
The underlying issues of inequality, corruption and poverty are still dogging the region, ten years after the protests.
The peace process is at an impasse in Libya’s protracted civil conflict.
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The peace process has unfolded in fits and starts, and thus far there doesn’t seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel.
Weapons belonging to forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, after a coalition air strike, March 21, 2011.
REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
When the 2011 Libyan civil war erupted, Twitter became a major instrument to air the rebels’ account of the conflict and present themselves internationally as a viable alternative to Moammar Gadhafi.
Pastoralists on a dry plain in central Mali, one of the seven Sahel countries hit by a wave of deadly attacks.
EPA/Nic Bothma
A big rise in armed attacks in the Sahel - and the intensity of the attacks in recent years - is now seen as a major source of concern.