Reports

An airstrike hit a field hospital in Gaser Ben Gasher municipality (near Tripoli airport) on 7 October, killing 1 doctor and injuring 2 paramedics. Attacks on health facilities in 2019 resulted in a total of 12 deaths…

Highlights The Gathering and Departure Facility (GDF) currently hosts 907 individuals. The next evacuation from the GDF to the Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM) in Rwanda is scheduled planned for next week. UNHCR continues to call on the…

Tripoli, 06 October 2019 - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) is appalled by an airstrike conducted by General Haftar’s forces, targeting the Equestrian Club in Tripoli’s Janzour neighbourhood. The airstrike, which took place…

ASSISTANCE TO MIGRANT AND LIBYAN COMMUNITIES DTM released a Flash Update for the situation in Murzuq, south Libya, informing that the total number of displaced persons from Murzuq is now at least 5,293 families (approx. 26,465 individuals). The Health…

SECURITY COUNCIL 8631ST MEETING (PM) SC/13971 Responding to Delegates’ Concerns, Germany’s Representative Says Suspension of Naval Rescue Operation ‘Is Temporary’ Condemning all acts of migrant smuggling and human trafficking off the coast of Libya, the Security Council today renewed for…

Tripoli – Three months after the airstrike on the Tajoura detention centre that tragically killed 53 migrants and left over 130 injured, vulnerable migrants returned from sea continue to be taken to this facility. The bombed…

excerpt Libya And turning to Libya and refugees. A group of 66 vulnerable refugees was evacuated from Libya to Rwanda yesterday evening on a flight chartered by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees…

EU talks in Malta and a more lenient policy of the new Italian government stirs hope for an end to Stand-offs for civilian rescue ships. Amid further rescues by national authorities, no EU-led Search and Rescue…

Highlights On 26 September, UNHCR evacuated 66 vulnerable refugees and asylum seekers to the newly established Emergency Transit Mechanism in Kigali, Rwanda. UNHCR is grateful to both Libyan and Rwandan authorities for supporting this departure. The flight…

New York - The AU–EU–UN Tripartite Taskforce on the Situation of Stranded Migrant and Refugees in Libya met this morning in New York in the margins of the high-level General Debate of the 74th session of…