Reports

TRIPOLI/TUNIS – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the World Food Programme, WFP, are joining forces in Libya in a project that will aim to reach up to 10,000 food insecure refugees and asylum seekers with…

SG/SM/20123 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres: The Secretary-General is deeply shocked by the discovery of multiple mass graves in recent days, the majority of them in Tarhouna. The Secretary-General calls…

Situation Following an intensification of conflict in southern Tripoli, Tarhuna and Sirt, nearly 24,000 people have been forced to flee their homes, according to IOM’s Displacement Tracking Update from 10 June. The majority of those displaced are…

Population movement As of 10 June, 4,231 refugees and migrants have been registered as rescued/ intercepted at sea by the Libyan Coast Guard and disembarked in Libya in 2020. For the same period in 2019, the figure…

New York, NY, June 12, 2020 --- In the past two weeks alone, COVID-19 cases in Libya have more than doubled, while a change in conflict dynamics has forced 24,000 people from their homes, putting the…

By Jérôme Tubiana, Clotilde Warin, and Mahamat Saleh Mangare Darfur’s fade-out from international headlines and Western interests over the past several years has fostered a false narrative that the conflict there is over, despite stark evidence to…

SITUATION UPDATE Displacement towards Eastern Libya continues to be reported by field observers since the last update of IOM Libya’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) on 07 June 2020. Furthermore, armed conflict in Wadi Al Jareef (Sirt region)…

Tripoli, 10 June 2020 - UNSMIL is pleased to announce that both, Government of National Accord (GNA) and The Libyan National Army (LNA) delegations, are fully engaged in the third round of talks of the (5+5)…

OVERVIEW This report presents the findings of Round 30 of the mobility tracking component of the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) programme in Libya, covering the reporting period from March to April 2020. In Round 30, the number of…

CONTEXT Since 2011, Libya has experienced several waves of fighting, and the complex sociopolitical landscape has developed into an increasingly protracted conflict. From 2014, an overall de-escalation of the conflict at the national level gave way to…