In Tripoli, the three-person Presidential Council which functions as head of state in the divided country asked the international community to help. Videos of Derna showed a wide torrent running through the city centre where a far narrower waterway had previously flowed. "People were asleep and woke up and found their homes surrounded by water," he told Reuters. However, Dbeibah’s government works closely with the Central Bank of Libya, which disburses funds to government departments across the country. Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani instructed the government to send aid to the affected area in eastern Libya, Qatar’s state news agency reported.
