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9 March 2011IOM estimates that some 22,500 people remain stranded at the Libyan borders, with over 16,000 being Bangladeshis. An expected 40 to 50 long-haul flights will be needed to repatriate all the migrants. According to UNHCR, increasing accounts of violence and harassment in Libya against sub-Saharan Africans... -
8 March 2011ERC Valerie Amos is in the Democratic republic of the Congo on her first official visit to the country. During the three-day mission the ERC will travel to two of the provinces most affected by armed violence: North Kivu and Province Orientale. The humanitarian situation in the DRC is one of... -
8 March 2011The United Nations, partner agencies and the International Organization for Migration have prepared the Regional Flash Appeal for the Libyan Crisis. The $160 million plan spells out the funding required for the next three months to meet the current and projected needs of people who have fled, and for other... -
7 March 2011The United Nations Secretary-General has appointed the former Foreign Minister of Jordan, Mr. Abdelilah Al-Khatib, as his Special Envoy to Libya. He will undertake urgent consultations with the authorities in Tripoli and in the region on the immediate humanitarian situation and the wider dimensions of the... -
6 March 2011The humanitarian community launched today a Regional Flash Appeal for the Libyan crisis. The appeal requests $160,256,548 to meet the humanitarian needs of the migrants who leave Libya for Tunisia, Egypt and Niger; respond to the needs within opposition-controlled parts of Libya; access people in the...
