A total of 44 refugees have settled in Italy after moving from Tripoli, according to most recent statistics of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
In its monthly statistics, UNHCR said twelve countries have pledged offering opportunities to accept refugees in a surprising move, given the new Italian government and other European administrations’ firm treatment of the refugee crisis.
The countries which announced their willingness to host refugees from Libya and Niger included Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the U.K.
UNHCR statistics also showed that it needs up to $85 million to complete its programs, indicating that it lacks 49 percent of funding to finalize them.
In October’s statistics, UNHCR announced that around 382,000 displaced Libyans have returned home many years after the instability that their country has witnessed due to civil war.
In its monthly statistics, UNHCR also revealed that more than 193,000 displaced people are still suffering from the internal displacement.
It added that Libyan Coast Guard rescued 14,000 illegal immigrants in October while 99 dead bodies were found and 608 others were lost in the Mediterranean.
In the past two months, many Libyans have been forcibly displaced due to the clashes that erupted in the southern suburbs of Tripoli Aug. 26, 2018, between rival militias.
On Aug. 31, the Ministry of Health of the Government of National Accord (GNA) stated that 39 people had been killed and 119 wounded, the majority of whom were civilian.
Hence, 900 displaced civilians were hosted by Fallah 2 Tawergha settlement for displaced people.
Around 1,900 others were forcibly evicted by militias from Triq Al Matar settlement, which is the largest internal displacement settlement in Tripoli, hosting 370 families originally from the city of Tawergha. They had been living in the settlement since 2011.
“Most of the more than 200,000 migrants and asylum seekers who reached Europe by sea in 2017 departed in boats from Libya,” Human Right Watch stated in 2017.
