Libyan officials sentenced to prison in Derna dam case

Officially the death toll in last year’s Derna Dam disaster in Libya is 4,500 people. But many thousands more have been considered lost ever since. Now, a Libyan court has sentenced lower-level officials to prison time for mismanagement and corruption. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Jalel Harchaoui, a Libya analyst at the Royal United Services Institute, about whether or not justice and accountability can be attained while Libya endures political fragmentation. 

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