The International Organization for Migration (IOM) confirmed that there are more than 278,000 internally displaced people still in Libya, notwithstanding the ceasefire.
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How the EU’s inhumane border ‘pushbacks’ are keeping refugees in Africa
As the death toll from shipwrecks in the Mediterranean continues climbing, in the Horn of Africa Ethopia’s Tigray region is unraveling into deadly violence between the central government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
Read More »Over one million Libyans in need of humanitarian aid
Stephanie Williams, Acting Special Representative for the United Nation’s Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) in an official statement on Wednesday said that the Libyan humanitarian crisis is worsening by the day.
Read More »UNHCR, WFP expand partnership in Libya to reach more refugees and asylum seekers as food needs rise
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) are expanding their support for food insecure refugees and asylum seekers in Libya with emergency food assistance in response to the severe socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country as well as the effects of …
Read More »Protests flare in Libya’s Benghazi over power cuts, living conditions
Scores of people protested in Benghazi on Thursday over power cuts and living conditions, witnesses said, burning tyres and blocking some roads in an unusual public show of dissent in the eastern Libyan city, Reuters reports.
Read More »Anger in Libya’s Benghazi over power cuts, living conditions
Dozens of protesters have rallied in Benghazi over deteriorating living conditions and power cuts, in a rare show of public dissent in Libya’s second-biggest city.
Read More »Libya rates as most-worsened country in world for past decade: FSI
A report by Patricia Taft in the 2020 Fragile States Index (FSI) rates Libya as ‘‘the most-worsened country in the world for the past decade’’. It also holds the record for the greatest year-on-year worsening, when it worsened by 25.8 points in the 2012 FSI’’, the report says. The report …
Read More »Libya civil war: 10,000 people missing, rights group says
Libya has faced a tidal wave of internal conflict that has claimed thousands of lives since Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s overthrow in 2011.
Read More »Red Cross: 44,000 people in Africa registered missing, more than 1,600 in Libya
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday it had recorded nearly 44,000 people across Africa as missing, in 2020, 45% of the cases were children.
Read More »NOC warns of deepening power cuts in eastern Libya
Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) has warned of worsening blackouts in eastern Libya due to a months-long blockade of oil and gas facilities, Reuters reports.
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