Reports

Highlights As part of events to mark World Refugee Day (WRD) in Libya, UNHCR and the Libyan Scouts organized an event on 17 June for local communities, including displaced Libyan and refugee children, to strengthen social cohesion…

Summary IOM Libya’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) programme identified a total of 649,788 migrants from over 41 nationalities in the 100 Libyan municipalities during Round 41 of data collection (February - April 2022). In line with a…

Highlights As part of UNHCR’s support to the Libyan national COVID response, aiming at improving the access of UNHCR’s persons of concern to health services, UNHCR donated eight prefabs, in coordination with the Ministry of Health and…

At the end of 2021, the Humanitarian Country Team in Libya agreed to extend the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) for an additional five months covering programming requirements until 31 May 2022. This decision was based on…

Highlights On 31 May, UNHCR has evacuated a group of 132 vulnerable asylum seekers out of Libya to safety in Rwanda, the second evacuation flight to Rwanda this year. The group of men, women, and children –…

Highlights On 24 May, a ceremony was held, marking the completion of renovation work of Emsaed School, in Emsaed city, near the Libyan-Egyptian border, eastern Libya. The project is part of the Blueprint for Joint Action by…

Assessment background A complex socio-economic situation, political division, instability, and re-emerging conflicts in Libya since 2011 have driven the country into a protracted humanitarian and protection crisis, which is further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, thousands of people in…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY / KEY FINDINGS Since 2011, the situation in Libya is tumultuous, oscillating between conflict and hopes for peace. The armed conflict – pushing the country in a state of crisis and emergency – has greatly impacted its…

Introduction Libya has been in a state of crisis and emergency since the beginning of the armed conflict in 2011, and this has greatly impacted its infrastructure, particularly in the fields of water and sanitation, and has…

CHANGE IN CONTEXT The 2022 Libya Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) assessed that 803,000 people remain affected and in need of some form of continued humanitarian assistance, a reduction by 36 per cent from the 1.5 million people…