TRIPOLI, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- An official from the UN refugee agency on Wednesday called on the international community to support the relief efforts in Libya after deadly floods devastated a vast swathes of the country's eastern region.
"Thousands of individuals have lost everything, not least their loved ones. Many had already been displaced before, and need all the support they can get to overcome this tragedy," Aseer Al-Madaien, chief of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) mission in Libya, was quoted as saying in a statement posted on the website of the refugee agency.
