For years, waste management in Al-Awainat has been a growing concern. Every morning, Sidi Mohamed Abdelkader, a municipal sanitation worker, would walk through streets lined with uncollected rubbish, blocked drainage channels, and waste piling up in open spaces. He recalled: “Without the right tools or a structured system, we struggled to keep up. We did...

“For years, we relied on a failing system” says Al-Dokali Al-Hadi, a community representative and Mukhtar Mahalla—a district leader within the municipality of Sinawin. His struggle to access clean water was shared by the entire community. He recalls their daily uncertainty—waking up each morning without knowing whether they would have access to clean water that...

When intense clashes erupted in Murzuq in 2019, 39-year-old Wardkoo, his wife Harday and their 5-year-old daughter Sukka, had no choice but to leave their family-run photocopy center and move 100 km east, to the small city of Umm al-Aranib.