{"id":447606,"date":"2011-06-25T10:17:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T10:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/25\/fighting-intensifies-in-north-west-says-un\/"},"modified":"2011-06-25T10:17:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T10:17:48","slug":"fighting-intensifies-in-north-west-says-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/25\/fighting-intensifies-in-north-west-says-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Intensifies in North-West, Says UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"31.6234793187\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/region.asp?Region=AFRICA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/unnews180.jpg\" alt=\"UN News Service (New\u00a0York)\" title=\"Visit UN News Service (New\u00a0York)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>24 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Fighting has intensified in north-western regions of Libya and the United Nations has stepped up its effort to help wounded civilians in the area, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Byrs, a spokesperson for OCHA, told a press briefing in Geneva assistance provided in the Nafusa Mountains has predominantly been in the health sector, &#8220;especially the treatment of the injured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Byrs said that throughout the country some 530,000 persons had received food assistance from the UN and its partners, including about 20 non-governmental organizations working in Libya.<\/p>\n<p>She said the port of Khums in the northwest received its first humanitarian assistance vessel on 19 June with 546 tons of food delivered to 106,000 beneficiaries in the area, in cooperation with the UN World Food Programme (WFP).<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Byrs said an appeal for $407 million for Libya was currently 55 per cent funded.<\/p>\n<p>OCHA reported today that more than 650,000 people have left the country since the start of the conflict earlier this year, with the majority non-Libyan. More than a quarter million non-Libyans are also temporarily in countries not of their origin. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that about 243,000 Libyans are internally displaced because of the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Libya is one of many countries across North Africa and the Middle East where popular uprisings and widespread protests have taken place this year.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106250007.html\" title=\"Fighting Intensifies in North-West, Says UN\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fighting Intensifies in North-West, Says UN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 24 June 2011 Fighting has intensified in north-western regions of Libya and the United Nations has stepped up its effort to help wounded civilians in the area, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today. Elizabeth Byrs, a spokesperson for OCHA, told a press briefing in Geneva assistance provided in the Nafusa Mountains has predominantly been in the health sector, &#8220;especially the treatment of the injured.&#8221; Ms. Byrs said that throughout the country some 530,000 persons had received food assistance from the UN and its partners, including about 20 non-governmental organizations working in Libya. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fighting Intensifies in North-West, Says UN - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/25\/fighting-intensifies-in-north-west-says-un\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Fighting Intensifies in North-West, Says UN - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"24 June 2011 Fighting has intensified in north-western regions of Libya and the United Nations has stepped up its effort to help wounded civilians in the area, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today. 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