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Citing the dire conditions in the site, IDP and elders informed the protection team that they wish to leave the camp as soon as they are allowed to return to Tawargha because it is located middle of nowhere with very limited access to services. When asked where they would like to go, they mentioned they would like to return to Tawargha. However IDPs were not consulted by their community leaders about other solution in case the return will not happened. Some mentioned that the leaders are communicated this information only with few members of the community. Many of the IDPs are not fully aware of the details on the ongoing negotiation with Misrata and/or any other alternative plans.
Latrines: Women and girls do not feel safe at the latrines because there are very closed to the gathering and they are not protected enough; they also raised concern on lack of lights around the latrines, IDPs also raised concern about the sewage hole gathering, the hole is open and they are afraid some children will fall in the hole;
Specific Vulnerabilities and Child protection There are physically challenged persons including disabled people. All disabled people interviewed by UNHCR had relatives to take care of them, who expressed particular difficulties and additional burden in ensuring their welfare given the situation in the site. There are also pregnant and lactating mothers on site. Many of the participants mentioned that several families left their children and female behind in the places of displacements to continue access to education and also to avoid having female/ adolescent with no protection in the site; however the families who arrived from long distance areas and who used to rent houses arrived with their children and all family members, some of the children missed the final school exams.
Access to information The IDPs noted that access to the mobile phone network in not regular due to poor mobile coverage. They main access to information they have is through community leaders, family men head of households and visitors. The IDPs also raised concerns about the lack of information of the reconciliation process and if there are any impending solutions, the lack of information mainly to vulnerable individuals and groups increase their vulnerabilities as they don't have enough information to take informed decisions about their future.
Pull/ Push factors All participants on the FGDs confirmed that main pull factor to come to the site is mainly to return to Tawargha. Some IDPs suggested that the lack of assistance in the places of displacement and the inability to pay for the rent are push factors. Few women mentioned that the humanitarian situation in the site is better than the situation in their place of displacement. IDPs who arrived form Sidi Alsayeh and Janzour academy informal settlements expresses their intention to stay, because of the security situation in the informal settlements areas in Tripoli. During the last period, West and South Tripoli areas where the IDPs sites located witnessed armed conflict between several military groups and residents from both settlement indicated that they did not receive enough services in the last two years
Production at the Zawiya refinery was also at risk due to its dependence on crude oil supply from Sharara, the company said.
Exports have since resumed, but some oil port storages were hit during the heavy fighting, forcing the closure of the al Bayda field, the engineer said.
Displaced women and girls represent one of the most vulnerable groups in Libya, where an estimated 500,000 persons are either internally displaced or have returned home following a period of displacement. Often at the mercy of inclement weather conditions, and lacking first necessity items as a result of the displacement, sanitary articles for everyday use can constitute a major need for all displaced.
Libya has restarted the eastern al Bayda oilfield, a field engineer said late on Tuesday, the latest operation in the so called Oil Crescent region to resume work after heavy fighting in June.
While on standby, the Aquarius witnessed a deterioration in the situation, with the overcrowded rubber boat taking on water. By 12:45 MSF and SOS MEDITERRANEE were able to negotiate with the IMRCC, Libyan coast guard headquarters and Libyan coast guard vessel on its way to the scene, to allow the Aquarius to stabilise the situation by giving out lifejackets to all people on board, and to assess their medical conditions.
From 1 March to 31 March 2018, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya  ( UNSMIL )  documented 16 civilian casualties – five deaths and 11 injuries – during the conduct of hostilities across Libya, a significant drop from the two previous months. Victims included three men, one woman and one girl killed and three men, one woman, four boys and three girls injured.
Libya's crude oil output has dipped again due to the deteriorating security situation around its largest oil field, Sharara, sources said Tuesday.
Sources with knowledge of Libya's production said an increase in local militia activity in the past week led to some oil workers evacuating fields. Crude output in Libya had recently touched five year highs at a critical time for global markets ahead of the imposition of US sanctions on Iran.
The United Nation Higher Commissioner of Refugees  ( UNHCR )  said on Wednesday that it has helped resettle 114 immigrants from Libya to Norway and Canada in the first week of December.
Together with the International Organization for Migration  ( IOM )  and based on the best interest of each child, UNICEF is working to return these children home with dignity, to start the healing process after such distress. If these children come from “countries of concern,' such as Syria, Somalia or Eritrea, however, returning them home is not an option. Instead, with the support of UNHCR, the aim is to find a country to host them as refugees. Italy, Germany and France are among the countries that have received some of these children, but more are needed. Last year, nine out of 10 children arriving in Italy by sea from Libya were unaccompanied.
One of the areas targeted was downtown Benghazi's Scout Park, a public park used by the Organization of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides to conduct their activities. “The park is one of the most important spaces for us,' said Hafid, a representative of the Scouts. “We had difficulty in continuing our activities in Benghazi because it was difficult to find a temporary open space that was large enough.'
Migrant shelters in Libya are crowded with migrants rescued at sea or arrested by Libyan security services.
So far this year, 232 immigrants have been resettled from Libya, and more than 900 individuals were submitted for resettlement.
“During the first week of December, 3 flights with 114 Eritrean, Sudanese and Syrian vulnerable refugees left Libya towards Norway and Canada thanks to UNHCR's resettlement program,' the UNHCR said in a statement.
A coalition of organizations began working on renovating the park, including cleaning it up, de weeding and repainting the public theatre stage located in the park. These efforts were largely dependent on volunteers and fundraising. With the aim to support the city's recovery process, ACTED Libya assisted these efforts by providing new benches, garbage bins, a soccer field and renovation of street lights in the park, with funding by UNHCR. This park will serve the residents of downtown Benghazi, including returnees, providing a recreational space for over 4,000 households.
In Ubari, with a budget of US$3.9 million, the Stabilization Facility for Libya has rehabilitated not only these three schools, but also the General Hospital and the Women's Centre. It also provided the municipality with a garbage truck, a pesticide vehicle and two generators. The General Hospital received two ambulances, which transport an average of 90 patients per month from Ubari, Ghrifa and Bent Baya to Sebha, Murzuq, Ghat and Tripoli.
The National Oil Corporation  ( NOC )  announces that the Al Wafaa oil field airfield was blockaded on the morning of Wednesday, September 19th, in an attempt to blackmail Mellitah Oil and Gas Company into awarding an unwarranted catering contract. If the blockade continues, the company will be forced to suspend all operations in the Al Wafaa field and evacuate all employees. A shutdown in the afternoon of September 20th will result in the cessation of gas supply from Al Wafaa to the Al Ruwais power plant.
The Libyan Health Ministry's Center for Disease Control said on Monday that about 5000 HIV cases have been reported since the start of 2018.
Fifteen migrants died and 10 others survived 11 days at sea after their boat capsized off the coast of Libya, the Libyan Red Crescent said on Tuesday, citing the survivors.
Demonstrators in the southwest of Libya took over the country's largest oil field in protest at the regions marginalisation by the government. They also threatened to close another medium sized oil site nearby if their various demands, that seek to improve the quality of life for locals, were not met.
The action is led by Khaled and Abdelhamid Al Wakwak and members of the Petroleum Facilities Guard in the south west. An operational shutdown will affect citizens in the Western mountain area, and potentially result in power outages.
Between 03 and 23 April, Sabha Medical Centre was hit by mortar shelling or gunfire at least four times, leading to material damage.
The intensification of the conflict in Libya since 2014 caused significant loss of life and displacement across the country. Critical infrastructure was damaged, disrupting basic services such as water, sanitation and electricity. UNDP works to support the GNA and local authorities to improve services to their citizens.
Libya's oil exports to China this year, totalling $3.5 billion so far, are already more than double last year's, Libya's National Oil Corporation  ( NOC )  said on Thursday.
Six years after the fall of Muammar Gadhafi, Libya remains in a chaotic state. The United Nations backed government struggles to exert control over territory held by rival factions, intensifying geographical and political divisions between the East, West, and South. Terrorist groups and armed militias exploit the turmoil, using the nation as a base for radicalization and organized crime, and pose a threat to the region and beyond.
Improving Conflict Management Skills. To create a grassroots foundation for peace, USIP is improving the conflict prevention and management skills of civil society leaders, lawyers, and journalists. The Institute is training ethnic, tribal, and other community leaders in Sebha, a city near the country's center that serves as a hub for smuggling and transnational trafficking. The national conflict inflamed divisions among Sebha groups. USIP is building on on recent reconciliation efforts to help local leaders reduce violence with facilitated dialogues and other mediation methods. The work also aims to undermine the appeal of extremism and provide a peaceful model for other Libyan communities.
As of 26 November 2018, a total of 57,354 asylum seekers and refugees are registered with UNHCR in Libya. A total of 3,572 individuals have been identified by UNHCR and its partners to be currently in one of the accessible Libyan detention centres.
IDPs from conflict affected mahallas in southern and eastern Sebha had mainly been displaced to the western mahallas of Al Jadidah, Al Mahdia, Al Minshiyah and Soukra. In all assessed mahallas, an estimated 85 100% of recently displaced IDPs planned to remain in their areas of displacement barring a change in conflict dynamics. Refugees and migrants were also reported to be present in all assessed mahallas.
On 20 November, Libyan security forces conducted an operation to forcibly disembark 81 refugees and migrants remaining on the Panamanian flagged cargo ship Nivin, docked in the commercial port of Misrata, while an MSF team was prevented from accessing the area.
A year after UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, began life saving evacuations for vulnerable refugees and asylum seekers out of Libya, almost 2,500 people who have been held in detention in Libya have now been evacuated to Niger, Italy and Romania.
Tunis, 1 November 2018 – From 1 October to 31 October 2018, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya  ( UNSMIL )  documented 10 civilian casualties – eight deaths and two injuries – during the conduct of hostilities across Libya. All victims were men.
• Cash remained almost universally unavailable for withdrawal by ordinary households, owing to the ongoing liquidity crisis that affected all regions of Libya. Nonetheless, in markets, most payments were made in hard cash  ( Libyan dinars )  or with certified cheques.
The death toll of the clashes between government forces and armed militias in Libya's capital Tripoli has increased to 78, the Ministry of Health said Sunday.
Those who chose to remain in conflict affected areas reportedly did so to protect their assets. Many also lacked the financial resources or family connections to be able to move. • Barring a major change in conflict dynamics, KIs in all assessed mahallas estimated that 85  100% of recently displaced IDPs planned to remain in their areas of displacement for the foreseeable future, due to the presence of family connections and easy access to basic items such as food and shelter.
Heavy fighting in southern Tripoli for the last eight days has left at least 47 people dead and more than 129 others injured, mostly civilians, as the violence reached residential areas.
• Recently displaced IDPs in all assessed mahallas had reportedly received humanitarian aid, principally food and blankets. For the most part, this aid came from local and international NGOs. • KIs in all assessed mahallas reported a strong preference for cash based interventions over other types of humanitarian aid.
Health facilities, generally either hospitals or private clinics, remained operational in all assessed mahallas, though access reportedly depended on a patient's community affiliation. Sebha Medical Centre, for instance, was perceived to be mainly open to patients from the Awlad Suleiman community; according to medical professionals, Tebu patients tended instead to travel two hours south to Taraghin or Murzuq to access hospitals there.
Following clashes between armed groups in Tripoli between 27 August and 04 September, at least 2,840 families  ( approximately 14,200 individuals )  have been displaced to Zliten, Bani Waleed, Misrata, Azzawya, Qasr Akhyar, Zintan, Msallata, Tarhouna, Garabolli, Swani Bin Adam, Tajoura and safer areas in Tripoli.
UNHCR and its partner International Medical Corps  ( IMC )  have been present at all disembarkations in Tripoli since the beginning of the year providing medical assistance and humanitarian support to disembarked refugees and migrants. So far, in 2018 they have provided individuals with 2,270 sets of non food items and 277 medical consultations.
On 28 March, UNHCR accompanied the Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Sigrid Kaag, on her visit to the Tajoura detention centre and the Naval Base in Tripoli. The Naval Base continues to be the largest disembarkation point with 2,783 refugees and migrants disembarked in 2018.
Over the past 72 hours following clashes in Tripoli, the lives of Libyans and an already vulnerable group of refugees and migrants have been put in grave danger, according to the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders  ( MSF ) . MSF reiterates that Libya is not a safe country, and that European governments must acknowledge their responsibility to help the most vulnerable people trapped in Libya.
Early Monday morning  ( 27/08 )  heavy clashes erupted between armed groups in Tripoli, causing the displacement of civilians and migrants in the affected area. Despite the security constraints, on 28 August IOM, Libyan and Malian authorities were able to ensure the safe transport of 118 men, 22 women, 16 children, two infants and eight medical cases to Mitiga airport for their further safe return home to Mali.
Tensions that started earlier this week have turned into armed confrontations in parts of Tripoli, in western Libya. An unknown number of people have reportedly been killed, and dozens of people injured, including civilians, are making their way to health facilities.
Last week, UNHCR and its partner LibAid conducted a rapid needs assessment in the region. The most pressing needs are related to shelter and health.
In August 2011, approximately 40,000 Tawarghans have been forcibly displaced from their town of Tawargha  ( 40 KM South of Misrata )  as armed fighters from the city of Misrata attacked the town forcing thousands to flee. Tawarghans have been displaced across the country and have been prevented from returning by the Misrata Brigades. Misrata residents widely reproach Tawarghans of having committed serious crimes including murders and rapes in Misrata along with the forces loyal to the ousted Libyan leader Moammar Ghadafi. The pro Ghadafi forces used the city of Tawargha as a base to attack Misrata and the surrounding areas from March until August 2011.
This morning a militia group belonging to the Ghnewa brigade attacked the Tariq Al Mattar IDP camp in Tripoli, home to over 500 families who were displaced from the town of Tawergha in 2011. The attack appears to be in retaliation to a violent altercation which took place between young men in the camp some two weeks ago, resulting in the death of one armed militia member from the Ghnewa brigade.
Eight migrants including six children were found dead on Monday after suffocating from petrol fumes while packed into a lorry container on the west Libyan coast, authorities said.
Over six hundred people attempting to cross the Central Mediterraneanhave drowned or are presumed drownedin the last four weeks alone, including babies and toddlers. These tragedies, which represent half of the total deaths at sea so far in 2018, took place as there were no longer non governmental organisation  ( NGO )  rescue boats active on the Central Mediterranean.
William Lacy Swing, head of IOM, the UN Migration Agency, appealed to the Libyan authorities to stop detaining migrants after they have been intercepted by the Coast Guard after seeking to cross the Mediterranean. IOM also seeks to speed up the process of voluntary return of migrants to their countries of origin.
From 1 June to 30 June 2018, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya  ( UNSMIL )  documented 31 civilian casualties –16 deaths and 15 injuries – during the conduct of hostilities across Libya. Victims included 12 men, one women, two girls and one boy killed and nine men, three women, two girls and one boy injured.
This weekend, some 204 migrants have died at sea off Libya, pushing the total number of migrant drownings in the entire Mediterranean so far this year to over 1,000 people.
As part of ‘Strengthening Local Capacities for Resilience and Recovery' project, The European Union  ( EU )  and the United Nations Development Programme  ( UNDP )  handed over yesterday to the contractors Al Gurda Clinic in Sebha for its rehabilitation.
Violence and armed conflict have left nearly 170,000 people displaced and economic crisis and loss of livelihood have led to inadequate access to basic services
Qatar Red Crescent Society  ( QRCS )  has completed 95% of the medical support program in the city of Sirte, north of Libya, with $499,000 funding from Qatar Fund for Development  ( QFFD ) .
Human traffickers in Libya reportedly killed more than a dozen people and wounded many others after a group of some 200 Eritreans, Ethiopians and Somalis, being held captive, attempted to escape. The incident happened on Wednesday, 23 May in Bani Walid, approximately 180 kilometres southeast of the capital Tripoli.
During the evening of May 23, between 5 to 6pm, more than one hundred refugees and migrants who had been kidnapped and held captive by human traffickers west of Bani Walid, Libya, managed to escape. They were shot at while attempting to flee, resulting in several casualties and 25 injured who were referred to General Hospital of Bani Walid.
Hospitals and other health care facilities in Libya have been bombed, shelled and hit by stray bullets during armed violence. Parties to the conflict have routinely failed to take all feasible precautions to distinguish between legitimate military objectives and civilians and civilian objects. They have used indiscriminate fire and weapons with wide area effects  ( including unguided indirect fire weapons such as mortars )  in densely populated areas, including in proximity to medical facilities. Parties to the conflict routinely failed to take all feasible precautions to avoid, or in any event minimize, incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians and damage to civilian objects, including medical facilities and personnel. Such attacks have led to civilian casualties, material damage and temporary closures of medical facilities.
The Libyan coastguard on Sunday  ( 6 May )  prevented a rescue ship belonging to two NGOs from approaching a boat in distress carrying migrants, an AFP photographer witnessed.
Ten Sudanese illegal migrants have been killed and eleven others injured in a car accident in Libya
More than 100 east African migrants escaped from a camp in the Libyan town of Bani Walid where they were being held hostage and tortured, international agencies and local sources said on Saturday, May 26.
People smugglers opened fire on a group of 100 migrants attempting to flee their clutches in northern Libya, aid agency MSF reports.
Spokesman of the eastern based Libyan army, Ahmad Mismari, on Tuesday said the army has captured 21 terrorists in the eastern city of Darna, after the army forces advanced in the south of the city.
Fighting between rival tribes that has rocked a southern Libya town for weeks has killed more than 31 people since the beginning of May, a medical source said on Sunday.
The chief of staff of renegade General Khalifa Haftar's army inLibyahas survived an assassination attempt outside the eastern city of Benghazi, according to a military source
At least eleven people have been reported dead after armed men, including two suicide bombers, attackedLibya's electoral commission headquarters.
Libyan coastguard vessels intercepted more than 500 migrants on four inflatable boats on Monday off the country's western coast and returned them to Libya, a spokesman said.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, evacuated 132 vulnerable refugees and asylum seekers out of Tripoli and flew them to Niamey, the capital city of Niger, on Thursday. This is the first group of refugees airlifted out of Libya since the UNHCR humanitarian evacuation programme was temporarily halted in early March, following concerns from the government of Niger that onward departures for resettlement in other countries were not keeping up with the pace of arrivals into Niger.
The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Mr. Moussa Faki Mahmat, strongly condemns the terrorist attack against the Libya National Election Commission, in Tripoli, which occurred on 2 May 2018, in which over 14 people were killed and many more wounded, including the staff of the Election Commission and police officers.
Her Excellency Ms. Bettina Muscheidt, Head of the European Union  ( EU )  Delegation to Libya, and United Nations Development Programme  ( UNDP )  Country Director to Libya, Mr. Sultan Hajiyev, signed an agreement at the UNDP Libya office in Tunis, by which the EU donates 5 million euros to the United Nations integrated electoral assistance project “Promoting Elections for the People of Libya'  ( PEPOL ) .
The Libyan navy said it has recovered the bodies of 11 migrants and rescued 263 others in two separate operations off Libya's western coast. The migrants were from various sub Saharan African countries, he said.
Libyan coastguards recovered the bodies of 11 migrants who died off Libya's western shore during an attempted crossing to Italy on Sunday, a spokesman said.
Only 64 per cent of the affected population has access to adequate drinking water sources, down from 88 per cent before the conflict
Leading causes of morbidity in week 15: Acute Upper Respiratory Infections  ( AURI )   ( n=4162; 9.21% of consultations number ) , Acute Lower Respiratory Infections  ( ALRI )   ( n=1384; 3.06% )  and acute diarrhea  ( AD )   ( n=1057; 2.34% )  remained the leading causes of morbidity this reporting week.
11 April 2018: Libya is in dire need of Egyptian labor to work in Libya's safe places during its reconstruction process, after witnessing destruction and instability, particularly in Sirte and Benghazi, over the last seven years, according to Libyan Labor Minister Al Mehdi Al Amin.
Armed groups in Libya are killing and torturing detainees in prisons, some nominally under government control, where thousands of civilians are being unlawfully held, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Yesterday at 10.32am the search and rescue ship Aquarius – operated in partnership by MSF and SOS MEDITERRANEE – along with the Libyan coast guard, were alerted by the Italian Rescue Maritime Coordination Centre  ( IMRCC )  to a rubber boat in distress with an estimated 120 people, in international waters 23 24 nautical miles from the Libyan coast.
On that sunny winter day, through funding from the European Trust Fund, our group from UNICEF worked with the UN Refugee agency  ( UNHCR )  to provide warm clothes to every one of the almost 100 infants and children in this center.
Post conflict Benghazi. Half collapsed buildings and other conflict remnants appear wherever one sets its eyes. Displaced populations forced out of their houses by the conflict now yearn to return home. In view of supporting the return process of and stabilization of conflict affected communities, ACTED, with the support of UNHCR, mobilized its teams to deliver small scale, rapidly implemented, community based projects in Benghazi.
They were separated by violent conflict in their country three years ago. But today, hundreds of students are happy to be back at their school in southern Libya and to reconnect with their former mates
TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya  ( Reuters )    U.S. forces said they had killed “two terrorists' in an air strike in southwestern Libya on Saturday as part of efforts to deny militants a safe haven in the country's vast desert.
IOM, the UN Migration Agency, announced today  ( 13/03 )  that it has assisted 10,171 migrants to return home safely from Libya with support from the European Union, African Union, and the Libyan Government since the scale up of Voluntary Humanitarian Return  ( VHR )  from the country started on 28 November last year. Another 5,200 migrants have returned with the support of African Union member states in the same period. Some 23,302 migrants have returned through IOM's VHR programme since January 2017.
At least three children are among 35 people reported killed in a twin car bombing in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday night. Around 60 people, including children, have been injured.
The prices of a majority of assessed food items increased from June to December 2017. Out of the 24 assessed food items, 16 have become more expensive, while 5 have become less expensive and 3 have remained unchanged. Since October 2017, 14 items have increased in price, 5 have decreased and 5 have remained stable.
The Libyan coastguard said 324 migrants were picked up on Monday trying to leave the North African country on board two rubber boats.
Ninety migrants are feared drowned after a boat capsized off the Libyan coast, says the UN's migration agency.
Representatives of the Task Force, created in November 2017, met with Libyan authorities last week and visited a detention centres for migrants and a shelter for internally displaced people in Tripoli. Whilst they commended progress on Voluntary Humanitarian Returns, they outlined a number of areas for improvement. These include: comprehensive registration of migrants at disembarkation points and detention centres; improving detention centre conditions  with a view to end the current system of arbitrary detention; decriminalizing irregular migration in Libya.
In addition, on 14 February, a plane took 150 refugees from Tripoli to Rome, bringing the total number of refugees evacuated since the beginning of UNHCR's humanitarian evacuation operation to 1,084  ( 770 to Niger, 312 to Italy, and two to Romania ) .
Twenty one migrants were missing and probably drowned after a rubber dinghy and a wooden boat set off from Libya for Italy and had to be rescued, the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday.
Since November 2017, UNHCR has evacuated over 1,000 highly vulnerable refugees out of Libya
The smuggler's truck reportedly drove into a large hole in the road and lost its balance being heavily overloaded with 180 people on board. The smugglers were transporting the group from As Saddadah to Tarhuna. Many of the surviving refugees and migrants were recaptured by the smugglers after the accident and remain in an unknown location.
IOM's Libya Mission will continue on January 8 chartered flights taking vulnerable migrants detained in Libya back to their homelands, a programme that resulted in 19,370 stranded Third Country Nationals leaving primarily the Tripoli area in 2017.
IOM's Displacement Tracking Matrix  ( DTM )  has identified 432,574 migrants in Libya, mainly in the Tripoli, Misrata and Almargeb regions, and estimates the number of migrants to be between 700,000 and one million.
Some 11,074 migrants have gone back to their home countries since IOM scaled up its efforts to facilitate the help for migrants interested in return assistance from Libya following the unrest in Sabratha in the beginning of October. The top four countries of return in 2017 were: Nigeria, Gambia, Guinea Conakry and Mali with a charter to Nigeria on 29 December marking the last VHR movement in 2017.
On Monday, 1 January, the UN Migration Agency's Libya mission chartered its first flight of 2018 under the Voluntary Humanitarian return  ( VHR )  programme, assisting 142 returnees departing from Libya to Gambia.
An estimated 1.3 million people   including 439,000 children – are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance in Libya.
In the first quarter of 2017, more than 10,000 children have attended community based psycho social support services in Child Friendly Spaces or in schools. This support allows them to return to a normal routine, by offering access to structured activities, games and informal and non formal education.
Tripoli continues to experience severe power shortage and fuel and water outages, leading to renewed street protests and road blocks from those affected. Clashes have recently erupted in Libya's oil crescent and the seizure of key oil ports by the Benghazi Brigade has resulted in the displacement of several families to the Benghazi area, forcing the children to interrupt their schooling.
By the beginning of 2017, there were still an estimated 10,420 returnee children in urgent need for education and psychosocial support in Sirte and its surroundings, following the 2016 crisis. In response, UNICEF and partners have established four fixed and mobile Child Friendly Spaces for the regular benefit of around 6,400 children.
But in terms of numbers, it highlights a record number of nearly 26,000 children who have crossed the Mediterranean from Libya.
Libya's many militias have been sporadically clashing and wrangling for control of Tripoli  ( and the country )  since the 2011 overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, but fighting escalated after parliamentary elections in June of 2014. A group from Misrata, Libya's third city, together with Islamists refused to accept defeat at the ballot box and coalesced into a militia alliance called Libya Dawn.
The World Bank says 60 percent of the country's $25 billion budget goes on a grossly inflated public sector, with corruption enabling many to get non existent state jobs. With the economy in such a shambles, incomes from these phantom positions are some of the few means of survival.
The country's largest employer is Misrata's Naseem dairy. Employing only 900 people, it announced in March that it may have to close because the financial chaos means it can't get credit to import milk powder and packaging.
Money shortages are made worse by galloping inflation, and restricting cash has not stopped the value of the currency plummeting as the price of goods has sky rocketed. Dollars now cost around six dinars on the black market, more than three times the official rate of 1.4.
Those militias are trapped in three tiny enclaves, along with families short of food and water.
Each day thousands of citizens send each other tips, with the phrase “red light' indicating a district or intersection where militias are fighting, or capturing people for ransom. Residents have formed Facebook groups to swap tips on where to find the few petrol stations that have supplies or banks with currency, or how to buy medicines when hospitals' stocks are exhausted.
Economic collapse and militia violence has left much of the country ungoverned, allowing human trafficking and horrendous treatment of migrants to go unchecked.
On an unannounced visit to one DCIM affiliated facility, Salah found around 1,300 people in a room fit to hold no more than 150. People were sleeping in shifts and had limited access to toilets.
In the wake of the CNN report on human auctions in Libya, there has rightly been a surge in concern for the thousands of Africans languishing in inhumane conditions in detention camps.
Yet this information is not new. International organisations, politicians, and journalists have all reported the dire conditions facing African migrants in Libya from at least 2010.
Specifically, the Black Lives Matter movement has broadened the concerns of global racial solidarity, not just in the United States where it was born, but also across other racially divided societies like South Africa and Brazil.
Refugees and migrants of sub Saharan African origin are particularly vulnerable to abuses due to the rampant racism and xenophobia in Libya.
But the reality is that many migrants are also not trafficked, at least not technically. They leave their homes by choice – driven by a variety of factors including poverty and conflict – and are now stuck in Libya's detention centres, trapped in what MSF called, in an open letter published 7 September, “a thriving enterprise of kidnapping, torture and extortion'.
Most reported drivers of the decision to come to Misrata: 1. Greater availability of employment opportunities 2. Presence of a support network of family or friends 3. Safer than other Libyan cities
Amnesty International is extremely concerned that, rather than focusing on eradicating horrific human rights violations and abuses, Europe's actions are leading to increasing numbers of people being stopped or intercepted, as they attempt to flee Libya, and transferred to detention centres or places of captivity where they are subjected to torture and other ill treatment and extortion. Europe's actions to strengthen the capacity of Libyan state and non state actors to control Libya's borders have resulted in the trapping of hundreds of thousands of women, men and children in a country where they are constantly exposed to the risk of serious human rights violations and abuses and where they have no access to any form of protection or redress.
Sitting about 120km west of Tripoli, Zuwara is a home to the Amazigh minority.
However, it is clear that, during 2016 and 2017, the LCG returned thousands of people they had intercepted at sea to Libya's shores and that the LCG's increased capacity, due to support from EU member states, has led to an increasing number of such pull back operations. So far in 2017, 19,333 people have been intercepted by the LCG and taken back to Libya.
As a result, hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants have crossed the Mediterranean from Libya towards Italy to seek protection or a better life in Europe.
In order to respond to the growing needs of women displaced across Libya, UNHCR and UNFPA, with the support of German funding, are distributing 8,517 hygiene kits in 16 different locations in Tripoli, Misrata, Sabha, Nafusa Mountains, Bani Walid, Janzour, Ubari and Murzaq. This week's distribution of hygiene and sanitary items reached 900 women from Tawergha living in three IDP settlements in and around Tripoli.
Over the last few weeks, clashes between armed groups in the southern region have forced hundreds of families to move to safer areas in Sabha  ( 850 families ) , Ubari  ( 307 families )  and Murzuq  ( 413 families ) . Families have been sheltered in public schools in Sabha, others have been hosted by communities and relatives in Ubari and Murzuq.
At the Frontline in Tripoli's southern residential areas of Wadi Rabea and Fatma Zahra, shelled houses, torched vehicles, destroyed shops and deserted streets attest to the intensity of the clashes in the capital.
The NOC also indicated that oil production had already fallen by 150,000 barrels per day  ( bpd )  and is likely to fall an additional 50,000 bpd due to a lack of storage capacity.
The migrants had set off for Italy from the city of Sabratha, west of Tripoli, but their vessel overturned and they came ashore in Misrata some 270 kilometres  ( 170 miles )  east of their departure point, said Red Crescent spokesman Baha al Kawash.
UNHCR and its partners, IMC and CESVI, conducted eight focus group discussions with refugees living in urban settings in Tripoli. The sessions were held with women, men, youth, persons with special needs, and elderly. Refugees and asylum seekers raised needs related to healthcare, education, shelter and security. In addition, ten focus group discussions were conducted with displaced communities living in Tripoli and the Nafusa Mountains. Access to healthcare, medicine, and essential goods and services, including shelter, water and sanitation, are the most pressing needs for IDP and returnee communities.
The UNHCR said on its official website that it had transferred 132 refugees from the most vulnerable groups from Tripoli to Niger in preparation for transfer to a third country as part of the process of evacuating migrants from Libya to other countries.
“This is the worst possible conclusion to the desperate plea of the people on board the Nivin to avoid inhuman detention in Libya,' saidJudith Sunderland, acting deputy Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “The situation is the result of efforts by Italy and the European Union to obstruct rescue operations by nongovernmental organizations and empower the Libyan Coast Guard even when Europe knows that Libya is not a safe place.'
Since the start of the evacuation operation from Libya in late 2017, a total of 2,476 persons  ( including unaccompanied children )  have been evacuated to Niger  ( 2,069 ) , Italy  ( 312 )  and the ETC Romania  ( 95 ) . There are 259 evacuated unaccompanied children remaining in Niger
UNHCR and IMC continue to provide medical and material assistance to refugees and migrants in detention centres. UNHCR continues to identify persons of concern and advocate for their release from detention. UNHCR estimates that over 2,500 refugees and asylum seekers are currently detained in Libya. So far in 2018, over 980 refugees have been released from detention following UNHCR's advocacy. The large majority of persons released were individuals evacuated to the Emergency Transit Mechanism in Niger and to Italy
The land transportation for migrants from BraK AL Shati and Sebha, located 80 kilometres and 30 kilometers – subsequently, from Tamanhent International Airport, was secured in collaboration with the local authorities. The migrants were also provided with food and non food items. IOM provided protection screenings for vulnerable migrants and medical screening prior to their departure.
UNHCR calls on states to increase access to safe and legal pathways for refugees in Libya, including resettlement places. On 22 November, UNHCR evacuated 132 vulnerable asylum seekers  ( from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan )  from Tripoli to UNHCR's Emergency Transit Mechanism  ( ETM )  in Niamey.
Among the group forcibly disembarked, there were over 20 minors, people who reported having been victims of trafficking and torture, and others declaring to be registered with the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR.
On 14 November, a total of 14 individuals, including a woman and a three month old baby, voluntarily disembarked the vessel, while the remaining 81 individuals have to date stayed aboard the ship
Like most of the refugees and migrants passing through Libya, a number of those on the ship told Amnesty International that they had been subjected to horrific human rights abuses, including extortion, ill treatment, and forced labour, much in line with what has previously been documented in Libya by the organization. One of those on board told Amnesty International he had already been held in eight different detention centres inside Libya and “would rather die than go back there'.
Across Libya, while bread prices did not increase in September, strong variations remained among cities assessed. In the east, price fluctuations since August for 5 pieces of bread varied from +140.0% in Benghazi  ( 3.00 LYD )  to  24.1% in Derna  ( 0.65 LYD ) . According to KIs, this volatility in prices is due to sporadic distribution of subsidised flour to bakers by the government in the east region.2
Aproximately 2,700 migrants arrived to Swani Bin Adam; most reportedly fled from the clashes in Tripoli including some who were released from Detention Centers. Subsequently, at least 1,200 were transferred to other Detention Centers.
As of 11 October, the Libyan Coast Guard  ( LCG )  rescued/intercepted 14,156 refugees and migrants  ( 9,801 men, 2,126 women and 1,373 children )  at sea during 108 operations. So far in 2018, the LCG recovered 99 bodies from the sea. The number of individuals disembarked in Libya has gradually increased over the past weeks when compared to the month of August  ( 552 individuals in August, 1,265 individuals in September and 884 individuals so far in October ) . An increase in disembarkations may be expected as the sea is currently very calm.
Many of the evacuated had been held in detention centres for several months and were suffering from the effects of malnutrition and poor health. They are currently being hosted in UNHCR's Emergency Transit Mechanism  ( ETM )  until further solutions for them are found.
The ministry's Department of Wounded said in a statement that the clashes in Tripoli had left 78 dead and 210 injured until Saturday.
The majority of displaced households are staying with family in private accommodation, however approximately 100 families were temporarily sheltered in four schools in Tripoli and Janzour, in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. Priority needs in the schools included food, NFIs, health interventions and sanitation.
In Janzour area in western Tripoli, 27 Libyan families including two children suffering from a degenerative illness sought refuge in a school after clashes in the south of the city forced them to leave their homes. Yesterday,  ( Monday, 3 September )  a UNHCR team visited the families and assessed their situation. In coordination with other humanitarian agencies, UNHCR will be providing emergency relief items to all 150 people sheltering in the school. A medical team from a local clinic is visiting the families and providing primary health care although the needs are increasing.
As of 13 September, the Libyan Coast Guard  ( LCG )  rescued/intercepted 13,517 refugees and migrants  ( 9,243 men, 2,075 women and 1,343 children )  at sea during 100 operations. Since the beginning of the year, 99 bodies were recovered in Libyan waters while 608 lives were lost at sea.
The Ministry of Health  ( MOH )  under the Government of National Accord  ( GNA )  stated on August 31 that39 people had been killed and 119 wounded, a majority of them civilians, as a result of the fighting. The GNA Ambulance and Emergency Services told Human Rights Watch that as of August 30 at least 18 civilians were among the dead, including 4 children aged between 6 and 15. Several others suffered serious injuries. There are no confirmed figures of casualties transferred to hospitals outside of Tripoli.
After seven years of conflict, the humanitarian situation in Libya continues to deteriorate, with increasing reports of grave protection and human rights violations. In 2018, an estimated 1.1 million people 378,000 of them children require life saving humanitarian assistance and protection.
Prior to departure the migrants received non food items and health and protection assistance as part of IOM's Voluntary Humanitarian Return Assistance. Unfortunately, an additional 30 migrants scheduled to depart were unable to reach the airport due to security constraints. IOM is following up to ensure their return as soon as possible.
Those evacuated were mainly Eritrean, Ethiopian and Somali nationals. All have been moved to the Abu Salim detention centre, which is in a relatively safer location where international organisations can provide aid to them.
According to residents, a local militia forced the entire population of Triq Al Matar to flee their homes last week, following three nights of indiscriminate raiding and the arbitrary arrest of 94 residents, 12 of whom remain detained by the militia in dismal conditions. Some women and girls were threatened with rape and the IDPs had to flee their homes at short notice, taking only a few belongings with them.
Following a string of bakery strikes in Tripoli, it is clear that disruptions to the supply of subsidised flour have become more severe in the west. In the capital, the median price of bread sharply increased by 33.6% between June and July. Since March, flour prices rose by 42.3% in Tripoli, compared to 15.8% in Libya
An estimated 300,000 children need education in emergencies support, according to UNICEF. And over 64,000 of the most vulnerable young people have received psychosocial help this year to deal with trauma.
So far in 2018, the Libyan Coast Guard  ( LCG )  rescued/intercepted some 12,152 refugees and migrants at sea during 88 operations. Since June, the number of operations increased when compared to the previous months, with over 5,000 refugees and migrants brought back to Libya  ( 1,756 individuals in May, 3,453 individuals in June and 2,231 individuals in July ) . During the reporting period, more than 800 refugees and migrants disembarked in the Azzawya Port  ( 36 individuals )  and the Tripoli Naval Base  ( 785 individuals ) .
The majority of civilian casualties were caused by gunfire  ( two killed and five injured ) , followed by explosive remnants of war  ( ERW, one killed ) .
During the first half of 2018, over 64,000 girls and boys received psychosocial support through community and school based Child Friendly Spaces.
Ongoing difficulties with the supply of subsidised flour to bakeries caused a rise in prices reaching 19.0% for flour and 10.1% for bread in 4 months. In Tripoli, many bakeries went on strike to demand that subsidised wheat flour be provided at earlier levels. According to KIs in Benghazi, bakeries that formerly sold bags of 6 7 pieces of bread for 1 LYD were now selling 4 piece bags for the same price.
The conflict hit area of Benghazi has been notoriously challenging to access, making it difficult for much needed assistance to enter safely. WFP is therefore working with Tunisian and Libyan authorities to launch its humanitarian air service  ( UNHAS ) , which will facilitate regular flights from Tunisia to various locations in Libya, including Benghazi. UNHAS flights to and from Libya are likely to provide a significant boon to the international community's presence inside the country.
Another 90 migrants recovered from the container were in critical condition and had been taken to a local hospital for treatment, the security directorate in the town of Zuwara said in a statement.
One month ago, the search and rescue ship Aquarius, run by SOS MEDITERRANEE in partnership with Médecins Sans Frontières  ( MSF ) , was blocked by Italian authorities from disembarking 630 people rescued at sea. Further blockages and obstruction of NGO rescue ships by European states followed.
Some 122 refugees, mostly women and children, fly out after qualifying for evacuation and resettlement under new international programme.