Highlights
• Under WHO’s transmission scenarios, Libya remains classified as “community transmission”. Since the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Libya on 24 March 2020, a total of 24 144 people have been infected with the virus (a 65 …

TRIPOLI– The National Centre for Disease Control of Libya, yesterday reported 796 new COVID-19 cases, as the total confirmed cases in the country exceeded 27,000.
The centre said in a statement that, it received a total of 3,318 suspected samples, …

General developments: political & security situation
• The security situation in Libya during the reporting period is characterized with the longstanding tension associated with military build-up around some of the cities in the western region.
• Across Libya’s key cities, …

The continuing COVID-19 pandemic continues to top a long list of global concerns, the UN chief told journalists on Wednesday, noting that “the grimmest of milestones” is upon us.

“The outbreak remains out of control”, Secretary-General António Guterres declared in …

TRIPOLI– A group of Libyan healthcare professionals from across the country met in Tripoli, Benghazi and Sebha to participate via a video teleconference in the first of a series of UN-supported technical exchanges to combat COVID-19. The aim of the …

Location: Ejdabia municipality, Ejdabia district
HF Name & Type: Elmaqrif Hospital
Attack type: Assault
Incident: An anesthetic doctor in the ICU of Al- Mogrif Hospital was attacked by security personal. He was threatened with kidnapping or taken to prison. Hospital …

Location: Abu Salim municipality, Tripoli district
HF Name & Type: Al-Khadra Hospital
Attack type: Kidnapping
Incident: Dr. Abdel-Moneim Al-Ghadamsi, professor of surgery at Al-Khadra General Hospital, was kidnapped by unknown people in front of his house in Tripoli on 11 …

The World Health Organization is raising the prospect that the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Equateur province could spread across borders.
The latest figures put the number of cases in the province at 113, including …

Top peacekeeping and humanitarian affairs officials warned the Security Council during a 9 September videoconference meeting* that wide-ranging implications of the COVID-19 pandemic could erode peace and push more conflict affected nations onto its agenda.
Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian …