HIGHLIGHTS

• Four weeks into the crisis, the humanitarian response continues alongside early recovery and reconstruction efforts.

• Assistance is ongoing in the affected areas, with some delays in assessments and data collection caused by a communication outage in Benghazi.

• After the school year started with a delay in the east last week, Derna schools reopened for recreational activities and psychosocial support on 8 October.

• About 98 schools remain closed due to damage or other flood-related access issues in the affected areas, five of them in Derna. Eleven schools continue to host displaced people.