Libya: Residents of Libya’s Derna Blame Government for Flood Disaster

Istanbul & Derna, Libya — When protests whirled by his home early this week, Khalid Alkowash, 42, a local government worker in Derna, Libya was concerned but not surprised.

Thousands of people were dead and thousands more missing because dams that were known to need repair burst. People were angry. And now, with most journalists barred from working in Derna, locals have increasingly few outlets to express this anger publicly.

“They were out of their minds,” Alkowash said outside his home near…