"LIBYA"

United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric provided updates on the humanitarian situations in Libya, Sudan, and Niger. UNIFEED

Addressing the Security Council about migrants in the Mediterranean, the Head of the UN Refugee Agency in New York, Ruven Menikdiwela, said, “Saving lives at sea and providing humanitarian assistance is one of the most basic obligations of humanity, and those performing rescue operations or helping in good faith should not be penalized for doing so.” UNIFEED / FILE

More than 16,000 children are displaced in eastern Libya following Africa’s deadliest storm in recorded history, UNICEF warned. UNICEF

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “As the northern hemisphere winter approaches, we continue to see concerning trends for COVID-19. Among the relatively few countries that report them, both hospitalizations and ICU admissions have increased in the past 28 days, particularly in the Americas and Europe.” WHO

Moroccan Ambassador Omar Hilale said that his country is facing the repercussions from the recent earthquake with “determination, seriousness and solidarity. And these are the values of Morocco.” UNIFEED

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

More than a week after floods caused by Storm Daniel devastated eastern Libya, killing thousands and displacing many more, the country’s Minister of Youth, Fatalla AF Elzuni, called upon the world “to live up to its responsibility to Libya in order to help cope with the aftermath of this disaster.” UNIFEED

Fatalla AF Elzuni, Minister of Youth of the State of Libya, addresses the general debate of the 78th Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York, 19-26 September 2023).

As UN humanitarian responders continue their work in the worst-hit areas of Derna after two dams collapsed upstream of the coastal city of Derna, the magnitude of the disaster continues to unfold, they said. UNTV CH

Press briefing by Georgette Gagnon, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Libya, on the situation in the country.