Reports

BENGHAZI, 15 March 2011 (IRIN) - Benghazi, Libya's second largest city and seat of the opposition Libyan National Council, is bracing for the fall-out from fighting in Brega, 200 kms away, with residents warning they could suffer gas and…

By Peter Cave and Rachael Brown Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamar Gaddafi have been attacking the town of Ajdabiya, the last major population centre before the rebel stronghold of Benghazi. Rebel fighters in Ajdabiya said four shells had hit west…

Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Tahrir Palace Cairo, Egypt March 15, 2011 FOREIGN MINISTER AL-ARABY: I'd like to speak in English first so that I would welcome the Secretary of State. We have had bilateral talks and multilateral talks. We discussed everything in…

A British Red Cross emergency hygiene and sanitation team is on its way to Tunisia with urgently needed sanitation equipment for people fleeing civil war in neighbouring Libya. On 15 March, the four-member team headed to the Tunisian border town…

Geneva/Benghazi (ICRC) - A cargo ship chartered by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), carrying 180 metric tonnes of food and other essential items, docked today at the port of Benghazi. "Our current priority in Benghazi is to ensure…

Genève / Benghazi (CICR) - Un navire affrété par le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR), transportant 180 tonnes de vivres et autres articles de première nécessité, est arrivé aujourd'hui dans le port de Benghazi. « À Benghazi, notre priorité…

RAS JEDIR, Tunisia, 15 March 2011 - Some 47 tons of UNICEF supplies have arrived in the town of Ben Guerdane near the Tunisian-Libyan border, to cover needs in the areas of health, child protection, nutrition, water, sanitation and…

Government says takes Brega in eastward offensive * Government says victory certain, will "bury" rebels * Gaddafi meets envoys, seeks oil investment * Mutiny slows troops' advance on Misrata, rebels say * International oil prices fall $1 on Gaddafi gains (Adds Gaddafi seeks new oil…

RAS AJDIR, 14 March 2011 (IRIN) - When violence broke out in the western Libyan town of Zawiyah, Bangladeshi migrant worker Mohammed Nienn, 28, was doing a shift as a steelworker. In a hurry to leave, he persuaded his Libyan…