Rapports

The OIC Ministerial Executive Committee held an emergency meeting at the OIC General Secretariat on 19 March 2011 to discuss the critical situation in Libya and its dangerous and ongoing implications. After exhaustive discussion, the Committee; 1. Extended condolences to…

French plane destroys Libyan military vehicle, France says * Government forces attack Benghazi, explosions heard * Thousands of refugees flee Benghazi (Adds French plane destroying Libyan military vehicle) By Mohammed Abbas BENGHAZI, Libya, March 19 (Reuters) - The French air force destroyed Libyan tanks and…

Khartoum, Mar. 19, 2011 (SUNA) - The Higher Committee for the popular campaign to support the Libyan people is dispatching the first shipment of relief material to the Libyan people this week as part of an air bridge to…

At the invitation of President of the French Republic, M. Nicolas SARKOZY, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations ; Mr. José Luis Zapatero, President of the Government of the Kingdom of Spain, Mrs. Angela Merkel, Federal…

Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned about the intensification in recent days of the fighting in and around densely populated centres in Libya, with the consequent risk to civilian lives. See also: Libya:…

RAS JEDIR, 19 mars 2011 (IRIN) - Alors que les Nations Unies viennent d'autoriser une zone d'exclusion aérienne au-dessus de la Libye et « toutes les mesures nécessaires », mis à part l'invasion, « pour protéger les populations et…

Britain will support additional emergency evacuation flights for people who have fled to the Libya-Tunisia border, in light of concerns that numbers reaching the border camp look set to keep growing. The new flights will be delivered through the International Organisation…

Author: Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies President John F. Kennedy once mused that limited military interventions are like taking a drink--once you take one and the effect wears off, you have to take another. Kennedy was employing the…

Geneva/Benghazi (ICRC) - Two days after its temporary relocation to the city of Tobruk in eastern Libya, a four-member team from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) returned to Benghazi today to resume its humanitarian work. "The improved…

(New York, 17 March 2011): I am gravely concerned at reports of the increasing use of explosive weapons in populated areas in Libya. The sustained shelling and bombardment of areas populated by civilians is causing widespread suffering. Moreover, the damage to…