Reports

KEY DEVELOPMENTS - Access to western Libya remains a significant concern for relief agencies. On March 2, Muammar Gaddafi-led Libyan government forces launched attacks in opposition-held areas of eastern Libya, resulting in heightened fears of additional air raids in the…

Updated: March 3, 2011 Author: CFR.org Staff The protests that led to the ouster of Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in mid-January have sparked a wave of uprisings elsewhere in the Arab world. Most notable has been Egypt, where…

March 3, 2011 - Los Angeles, California International Medical Corps' emergency response team in Benghazi, Libya is assessing needs of those affected by the violence as well as distributing critical supplies to health structures serving the local population. An additional…

03.03.2011: DanChurchAid allocates DKK 750,000 for emergency relief supplies to refugees from the civil riots in Libya. "Together with the ACT Alliance we have sent out a team in charge of assessing how to best help the refugees", says DanChurchAid 's…

More than 95,000 refugees have crossed the remote desert border post at Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, in the past 10 days. President Obama said the US military would help transport home refugees from Libya, and the European Commission boosted aid. By…

NAIROBI, 2 March 2011 (IRIN) - Some 2,500 Somali migrants in the Libyan capital Tripoli, under the control of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, are holed up in the violence-affected city and unsure what to do, say Somali migrants…

By SHARON OTTERMAN and ALAN COWELL Published: March 2, 2011 SALUM, Egypt - International assistance began trickling though the Egyptian border into Libya on Wednesday, with medical supplies and assessment teams gathering at the border checkpoint here before heading into rebel…

Rabat - Upon the orders of HM King Mohammed VI, urgent humanitarian aid will be sent on Wednesday to thousands of refugees of different nationalities currently at Rass Jdir center on the Tunisian-Libyan border, victims of serious acts of…

GENEVA (2 March 2011) - The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination called on the international community and the UN system to seek urgent measures to protect non-citizens, migrant populations, migrant workers, refugees and other minority…

02-03-2011 Interview Amid ongoing unrest in Libya, the ICRC is continuing to assist local doctors in the eastern city of Benghazi and surrounding towns. Boris Michel, the ICRC's head of operations for North and West Africa, explains what else the…