WUNRN
LIBYA – The news focuses on the dire and escalating conflict in Libya, the military attacks, the politico-religious dimensions, even the issue of oil. But if you are a woman in Libya, as in a rural village, or a woman wanting to migrate across the Mediterranean and prey to traffickers and treacherous boats, you only want safety, peace, for you and your children. Where can you go to security and survival; how can you cope and survive? The world’s attention is immersed in so many traumas and conflicts, but you are in Libya; and this is now the center of your world! WUNRN
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IOM –International Organization for Migration
LIBYA – CALL FOR COORDINATED RESPONSE TO “UNREVELLING”
LIBYA – DANGERS FOR CIVILIANS CAUGHT IN THE
ESCALATING CONFLICT IN LIBYA AND TO THOUSANDS OF STRANDED
MIGRANTS – WOMEN & CHILDREN AT RISK & EXTREMELY VULNERABLE
Feb-16-2015
- Italy - As violence escalates in Libya, IOM is calling on world
governments to act swiftly to face the growing threat to migrants. Over 1,600
have been rescued from unseaworthy boats on the Mediterranean Sea since Friday
(13/2).
“This is a clear signal that the situation in Libya is unravelling. We also know this from the fact that Italy and several other nations have already evacuated their citizens from the country,” IOM Director General William Lacy Swing said on Monday (16/2). “We must stand ready to assist thousands of extremely vulnerable people who need our help,” he added………
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/16/us-mideast-crisis-libya-egypt-idUSKBN0LJ10D20150216
LIBYA – EGYPT BOMBS ISLAMIC STATE TARGETS IN LIBYA AFTER 21 EGYPTIAN CHRISTIANS BEHEADED
By Omar
Fahmy and Yara Bayoumy – 16 February 2015
CAIRO
(Reuters) - Egyptian jets bombed Islamic State targets in Libya on Monday, a
day after the group there released a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian
Christians, drawing Cairo directly into the conflict across its border.
Egypt said
the dawn strike hit militant camps, training sites and weapons storage areas in
neighboring Libya, where civil conflict has plunged the country into near
anarchy and created havens for armed factions.
While Cairo
is believed to have provided clandestine support to a Libyan general fighting a
rogue government in Tripoli, the mass killings pushed President Abdel Fattah
al-Sisi into open action, expanding his battle against Islamist militancy.
Libya's air
force also participated in Monday's attack on Derna -- an eastern coastal city
seen as a base for Islamic State fighters in the oil-rich nation.
"There
are casualties among individuals, ammunition and the (Islamic State)
communication centers," Libyan air force commander Saqer al-Joroushi told
Egyptian state television, adding that between 40 to 50 militants were killed.
It was not
possible to confirm those numbers.
"More
air strikes will be carried out today and tomorrow in coordination with
Egypt," said Joroushi, who is loyal to Libya's internationally recognized
government, which has set up camp in the eastern city of Tobruk after losing
control of Tripoli.
The rival
Tripoli-based parliament, which is supported by some Islamist groups, condemned
Monday's strike as an assault on the country's sovereignty.
Cairo also
called on the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria to
broaden the scope of their operations to include Libya, highlighting how the
militant group is expanding its reach around the Arab world.
Since the
fall of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, a number of Islamist movements
have taken hold. Recently, some have declared ties to Islamic State and claimed
high-profile attacks in what appears to be intensifying campaign.
Last month,
Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on the Corinthia Hotel in
Tripoli, killing nine people, including an American security contractor and a
Frenchman.
CHRISTIAN
CONDEMNATION
Egypt is not
the only Arab nation sucked into confrontation with Islamic State by the gruesome
killings of its citizens……..
See above
link for full article.