UN humanitarian chief outlines progress providing relief aid to Libyans

Published on 01 March 2011

The top UN humanitarian official said Monday that the global organization and its humanitarian branches are working to help civilians fleeing Libya due to the current crisis in the North African country. (..) "The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is dispatching staff to the Egyptian and Tunisian borders to assess needs and “do contingency planning for delivering food assistance to people affected by the violence inside Libya, if there is a need and once the security situation allows,” she said.

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