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7 April 2011 - 6:41pmHumanitarian agencies have stepped up their humanitarian response to meet the urgent needs of civilians caught in recent fighting in Côte d’Ivoire. In Abidjan, countless dead bodies are strewn over the city’s streets and entire neighborhoods are without electricity and water. Many... -
6 April 2011 - 12:29pmAs hostilities continue, there is a dire need for humanitarian aid and increased access to conflict-affected areas of north-western Libya. The humanitarian community is concerned about support for health facilities and protecting civilians from gender-based violence and human rights violations. The... -
5 April 2011 - 5:22pmToday ERC Valerie Amos traveled to Man, where she met internally displaced people and aid workers. In meetings with aid workers, Ms. Amos also discussed the adequacy of aid being provided and the challenges of working in the west, a region long known for being Côte d’Ivoire’s most... -
4 April 2011 - 5:34pmERC Amos travelled today to the western town of Duékoué in Côte d’Ivoire, home to an estimated tens of thousands of internally displaced people and site of some of the mass killings and most serious human rights violations that have occurred since the start of the four-month old... -
3 April 2011 - 12:50pmBetween 11,600 and 12,500 people remain stranded at transit points and camps along the Libyan border in Tunisia, Egypt, Niger, and Algeria. Since the start of the unrest, 430,949 people have left Libya, crossing into neighboring countries. Of this figure at least 87,900 were repatriated by IOM and another...
