Informes

New York, 17 April 2019: Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock today allocated US$2 million from the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to provide life-saving assistance to civilians caught up…

Refugees and migrants trapped in detention centers must be evacuated Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is extremely concerned for the safety of civilians in Tripoli as escalating fighting forces thousands of Libyan families to flee their…

HIGHLIGHTS Civilians continued to be a target of armed conflict, in violation of International Humanitarian Law. On 16 April, late at night, Tripoli witnessed the worst violence recorded against civilians in Libya since 2014. Indiscriminate shelling impacted…

Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya Ghassan Salame condemns in the strongest terms the overnight heavy rocket shelling on the high-density residential neighbourhood of Abu Slim in Tripoli which resulted in scores of civilian deaths…

Highlights • Heavy impact on the civilian population, as sustained fighting continues in and around Tripoli. Displacement is now at the highest level since the crisis started • UNHCR transferred vulnerable migrants and refugees from Abusliem detention centre in…

Armed groups continue fighting for control of Tripoli with clashes involving heavy shelling, airstrikes and snipers in southern residential areas. Health sector partners report a total of 930 casualties (174 dead and 756 wounded), with 14 civilians…

Following the onset of armed conflict on 05 April 2019 in South Tripoli, at least 4,870 families (approximately 24,350 individuals) have been displaced from their homes. Since DTM’s last update on 14 April, an additional 1,220…

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today relocated another 150 refugees who were detained in the Abu Selim detention centre in south Tripoli to UNHCR’s Gathering and Departure Facility (GDF) in the centre of Libya’s capital, safe…

Highlights The number of people displaced in context of the hostilities is now approaching 20,000, as per DTM. The majority of those displaced are sheltering with family or in other private hosting arrangements. While the largest single…

Chris Stephen, Journalist based in Tunisia and author of "Judgement Day: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic" The Libyan capital of Tripoli is shuddering under an offensive by forces loyal to strongman Khalifa Haftar, with the city’s already…