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30 December 2011 - 2:11pm2011 has been a deeply challenging year for millions of people around the world - and stretched the capacity of humanitarian aid organisations to the limit. An earthquake and tsunami in Japan, drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, and flooding in Central America, Pakistan and Southeast Asia,... -
27 September 2011 - 5:49pmIntense fighting and insecurity are reported in Sirte, Bani Walid, and parts of southern Libya, continuing to hamper humanitarian access and assistance. Humanitarian actors have expressed concern over the situation in Sirte, where the electricity supply has reportedly been cut off and there are water... -
8 September 2011 - 12:33pmThe World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have partnered to deliver 500,000 litres of bottled water to Libya’s capital Tripoli and surrounding areas where a lack of potable water has affected some four million people. “At this time, hundreds of thousands of... -
16 July 2011 - 2:29amThe United Nations completed its second inter-agency humanitarian assessment mission to the Libyan port city of Misrata on 14 July, which has seen some of the worst fighting over the past months. Though aspects of normalcy have returned to Misrata, fighting continues in the area and the city remains... -
17 June 2011 - 5:34pmIntense fighting has been reported outside Brega and Misrata and around Kikla in the Nafusa Mountains. Shelling continues to be reported near the Dhibat/Wazin border area and in Zintan. However, no unmet humanitarian needs have been reported in these areas so far, according to the latest OCHA situation...
