Reports

Highlights • Shortages of medicines, consumables and medical supplies continue in Libya due to lack of funding. Despite some donations, shortages and irregular supply of vaccines remain a problem. • WHO is in negotiations with the UN Security Council…

Deadly Explosive Remnants of War in Libya Fighting in Libya since February has led to a significant Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) contamination that threatens to increase the number of deaths and injuries of civilians and aid…

The Secretary-General's special envoy for Libya, Abdul Elah al-Khatib, has had talks in the country's capital, Tripoli, with both the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister, stressing the need for a political solution to the ongoing…

Wazin – Nalut – Jadu – Zintan, 30 June and 1 July 2011 This report outlines key observations and recommendations of the United Nations Inter-Agency Security and Humanitarian Access Mission to the Nafusa Mountains of Libya. Given the…

By Peter Graff BIR AYAD, Libya, July 10 (Reuters) - The Bir Ayad field hospital is in a single room with no electricity in a former roadside cafe near the front line in Libya's Western mountains. It's a…

The architects of a decade's wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Libya devote great efforts to assessing the military aspects of their operations - yet are silent on the human damage. A new report highlights the…

I. HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES • Few civilians remain in the ‘front line’ areas where most of the fighting is taking place • Shortage of medicines and departure of medical personnel continue to affect the health system • Water supply is…

Hundreds of stranded Chadian migrants, majority of whom are women and children have been airlifted out of the Southern Libyan town of Sebha and flown back to the Chadian capital N'Djamena onboard IOM chartered flights. Some 370…

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Prime Minister of Libya today discussed the need to end the fighting and ensure a transition that brings peace to the country, and agreed that the United Nations Special Envoy should…

Three Antivehicle and Antipersonnel Minefields Discovered (Zintan, July 8, 2011) – Libyan government forces have placed at least three minefields containing antipersonnel and antivehicle landmines outside the village of al-Qawalish in the western Nafusa Mountains, Human Rights…