Rapports

By Priyanka Pruthi NEW YORK, USA, 31 May 2011 – Their tents have been torched, their belongings looted and a temporary school for their children destroyed. Staying out in the open, amidst the charred remains of all…

BEN GUERDEN, Tunisia —Tensions are rising near the Tunisian-Libyan border in the Choucha camp, home, for now, for more than 3,500 third-national refugees. Some are in transit waiting to be repatriated. However, others, many among them…

Watch the Webcast SC/10266 Security Council 6541st Meeting (AM) Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs B. Lynn Pascoe Briefs Protection of civilians, securing a commitment for indirect negotiations and planning for post-conflict peacebuilding were the key priorities of the United Nations in Libya,…

May 31, 2011 Author: Deborah Jerome, Deputy Editor The G8 summit in Deauville, France, last week ended with pledges of aid to the Arab world's fledgling democracies of Egypt and Tunisia along with harsh words for the Mideast…

(May 31, 2011) (Benghazi, Libya) – On the floor of a cargo hold in a ship evacuating casualties from the Libyan city of Misrata, 14-year-old Ayman Abdulatif was mute on his makeshift hospital bed. He…

SITUATION A corridor for humanitarian cargo has been opened into the Nafusa Mountains in western Libya. Goods are consolidated at the Zarzis Free Zone, Tunisia, about 100 km from the border with Libya, then called forward to…

An eighth IOM mission to Misrata to evacuate a remaining group of stranded migrants began on Monday evening, 31 May. A few hundred migrants are estimated to be still in need of evacuation assistance from the city…

South African President Jacob Zuma is in Libya to try to broker a cease-fire between the government of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and rebels fighting to oust him. Mr. Zuma arrived at Tripoli airport Monday on his…

A joint WHO/UN humanitarian team has been in Libya to negotiate ways of providing humanitarian support to the Libyan people and other nationalities displaced as a result of the conflict. The team held constructive negotiations in…