Jul 27 Sami Zaptia

UNCHR welcomes inclusion of refugees in Libya’s vaccination drive

By Sami Zaptia.London, 27 July 2021:UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today welcomed the initiative of the Libyan government to vaccinate refugees and asy...

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Jan 16 Sami Zaptia

1,200 Derna families continue to be displaced in several areas of Libya: UNHCR

By Sami Zaptia.Derna (file photo).London, 16 January 2019Despite a large number of IDPs having returned home to Derna in the last six months, approxim...

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UNHCR plans to evacuate 8,000 refugees in 2018
Dec 19 Michel Cousins

UNHCR plans to evacuate 8,000 refugees in 2018

By Moutaz Ali.Tripoli, 19 December 2017:The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said today it plans to evacuate between 5,000 and 8,000 refugees in Libya next y...

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Jul 11 Nigel Ash

Vast majority of migrants is “economic” says UN

By Jamie Prentis. Most migrants are young men seeking a better life (File photo)Tunis, 11 July 2017:Around 80 percent of migrants transiting through L...

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Jun 14 Michel Cousins

UNHCR demands "thorough and impartial investigation" into Qaddafi soldiers' slayings

By Hadi Fornaji.Tunis, 14 June 2016:The UN human rights organisation UNHCR has called on the Government of National Accord in Tripoli to carry out an...

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UNHCR finds war criminals on all sides in the conflict
Feb 26 Nigel Ash

UNHCR finds war criminals on all sides in the conflict

By Libya Herald reporters.Tunis, 26 February2016:Human rights have been disregarded by all sides in the Libyan conflict since 2014 with summary execut...

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Feb 14 Nigel Ash

Italy gives $1.5 million for UNHCR’s Libyan refugee work

By Libya Herald reporters.Tripoli, 14 February 2016:Italy has responded to the call by the refugee agency, the UNHCR,  for emergency humanitarian aid...

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Aug 4 Michel Cousins

UNHCR and IOM work to reduce Mediterranean migrant disasters from Libya

By Libya Herald reporter.Tunis, 4 August 2015:The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organisation for Migrati...

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Jan 5 Michel Cousins

Database launched on Tawerghans' needs

By Ashraf Abdul-Wahab.Tripoli, 5 January 2014:Following the recently fire and flooding at the Tawergha refugee camp on Tripoli’s  airport road, a grou...

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UNHCR says conditions for refugees unimproved
Dec 7 Nigel Ash

UNHCR says conditions for refugees unimproved

By Callum Paton.Tripoli, 7 December 2013:UNHCR has said it has seen no improvement in conditions for refugees who have fled to Libya. It described the...

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