Reports

LIBYA COVID-19 RESPONSE The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) partners with Libyan government institutions, civil society, and the private sector to support strengthening the foundations of a more unified Libyan state and advance stability and…

Key figures: 392,241 Libyans currently internally displaced (IDPs) 493,716 returned IDPs 45,661 registered refugees and asylum-seekers 209 monitoring visits to detention centres in 2020 387 refugees and asylum-seekers released from detention in 2020 5,877 vulnerable refugees and asylum-seekers departed since November 2017…

OVERVIEW Between July and September 2020 the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Libya increased exponentially (from below 900 by end of June to over 34,500 cases by end of September) as community transmission continued to affect…

Population movement As of 22 October, 9,389 refugees and migrants have been registered as rescued/intercepted at sea by the Libyan Coast Guard (LCG) and disembarked in Libya. With the latest disembarkations, the figure of those rescued/intercepted at…

Highlights On 15 October, UNHCR evacuated a group of 153 vulnerable refugees and asylum-seekers out of Libya to the Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM) in Niger. This marks the end of a sevenmonth long suspension of evacuation flights…

Highlights: Close to ten per cent decrease in the number of people displaced in Libya. COVID-19 cases double, with more than 20,000 confirmed cases and 320 deaths reported in September alone. Fuel shortages and electricity outages continue to disrupt…

Summary of major revisions made to emergency plan of action: The DREF operation is extended by three additional months until 31 December 2020, therefore reaching the maximum Six months operations timeframe. This timeframe extension will allow the…

INTRODUCTION In an effort to inform cash-based interventions and better understand market dynamics in Libya, the Joint Market Monitoring Initiative (JMMI) was created by the Libya Cash & Markets Working Group (CMWG) in June 2017. The initiative…

60 people remain in captivity and must be released immediately On Friday, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called for the immediate release of 60 people being held in captivity by armed…

Population movement As of 8 October, 8,998 refugees and migrants have been registered as rescued/intercepted at sea by the Libyan Coast Guard (LCG) and disembarked in Libya. UNHCR and its partner, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), continue…