Press releases

  • 27 Dec 2017 - Tunis, 26 December 2017 - Sixty thousand (60,000) people in Benghazi will benefit from medical supplies provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) and funded by the European Union Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid (ECHO). In the context of its ongoing response to the health situation in Libya, WHO, has provided on 21 December, 60 Basic Interagency Emergency Health Kits (IEHK) with 6 supplement and 9 Trauma kit Type B to Al-Jalaa Hospital in Benghazi.
  • 23 Dec 2017 - Tunis, 22 December 2017 - More than 55 representatives from the South of Libya concluded a three-days Forum in Tunis by adopting a general Charter for Reconciliation. The participants included elders and wisemen from various tribal components of the South, community leaders, members of municipal councils, youth and women activists, local mediators, and civil society organizations.
  • Ms. Amal Elmoghrabi, UNDP Programme Analyst hands over the ambulances to the Mayor of Murzuq, Mr. Ibrahim Shawish, at UNDP Libya office in Tripoli. Photo: ©UNDP.

    21 Dec 2017 - Murzuq, 21 December 2017 - Murzuq municipality, in the south of Libya, has received two intensive care ambulances from UNDP through a EU-funded project which aims to improve access to essential services, create jobs and entrepreneur opportunities, and increase security and rule of law in the country.
  • 20 Dec 2017 - Libya - To commemorate International Migrants Day on 18 December 2017 and to celebrate and shed light on the positive impact of migration on our society the UN Migration Agency (IOM) organized activities and events in the east, west and south of Libya.
  • 19 Dec 2017 - On 15 December, the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), in partnership with UN Women and UNSMIL/Security Institutions Division, completed the third and last workshop of the new phase of its project on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) risk awareness in Libya, kindly supported by the Government of Italy.
  • Students enjoy at their rehabilitated classroom at Althanwia School. Photo: ©UNDP

    19 Dec 2017 - Ubari, 19 December 2017 – The Stabilization Facility for Libya (SFL) has rehabilitated three schools in Ubari, South Libya, and handed them over to the Municipality. During the ceremony, which took place on Monday in one of the rehabilitated centers, Althanwia School, the Acting Mayor of Ubari municipality, Mr. Abou Baker Gansou stated:
  • 18 Dec 2017 - On International Migrants Day, we recognize the contributions and celebrate the vitality of the world’s 258 million migrants.  
  • 18 Dec 2017 - Tunis, 18 December 2017 - 36,000 migrant children are in need of assistance in Libya, figures revealed today on International Migrants Day show. Out of an estimated 400,000 migrants, nine per cent are children and, shockingly, more than 14,000 children are also unaccompanied. 
  • 17 Dec 2017 - Since the launch of the UN Action Plan for Libya, on September 20th 2017, my colleagues and I have been working arduously to support Libya to enter a stage of certainty, embodied in a stable, capable and fair state.  Libyans say that they are tired of moving from one transition to another.  They aspire for an effective state that provides services starting with security to public health and education.  This is exactly what the UN Action Plan set out to achieve.
  • 15 Dec 2017 - Tripoli -The Libyan Ministry of Health (MOH), in collaboration with the National Center for Disease Control and the World Health Organization country office of Libya, celebrated on 14th December the conclusion of a series of activities on the occasion of the World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW2017) under the theme “Seek advice from a doctor before taking antibiotics”.

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