UNICEF Nigeria Humanitarian Situation Report Mid-Year 2020

Libya became a testing ground on UAV warfare.

Israel is a key player in the crisis currently unfolding in the eastern Mediterranean Sea basin.

Turkey is fully focused on protecting its rights in the Eastern Mediterranean, Libya, and the Aegean, the nation's president said on Aug. 15.

The Ministry of Planning has hosted a meeting that gathered the head of the joint National Technical Coordination Committee, Issam Garba, UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for Libya, Yacoub El Hillo, and Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

American officials recently informed the warring parties in Libya that any violation of the ongoing ceasefire in the strategic city of Sirte will lead to a severe response from the United States.

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The spokesman for the Libyan Government of National Accord’s (GNA) Sirte-Jufra Operations Room Abdelhadi Drah said they had depicted six flights on Russian military cargo planes coming from Syria’s Lattakia to eastern Libya’s Labreg and Benina airports.[img align=right

A website monitoring military aircraft movements over Italy and the Mediterranean detected a Turkish transport jet that took off from Gaziantep southern Turkey and landed in Misrata city western Libya.

The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) said Saturday financial losses of the oil blockade had reached over 8.36 billion dollars from January up until August 15, 2020.

Russia’s Libyan strategy has been rather contradictory since the 2011 February revolution in the country.

There are two sources of tension in the Eastern Mediterranean that Turkey watches closely: the situation in Libya and the escalation with Greece over exclusive economic zones (EEZ). Obviously, those two tensions are completely intertwined and inseparable parts of the same puzzle.

The Turkish military intervention has prevented General Khalifa Haftar and Russia’s Wagner group from seizing control of Tripoli and therefore paved the way for a political settlement in Libya, the United States’ envoy to Libya has said, calling on the countries who are unhappy with the Turkish presence to question their support to Haftar and Russian mercenaries.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has donated what was described as “urgent humanitarian aid” to Nigeria.

Followers of detained Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky known as Shi’ites, have commended the Judiciary for acquitting their colleagues under detention.

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Sunday deployed additional 32 special forces to support Operation Safe Haven being executed by the military to restore normalcy to southern Kaduna.

The British Government through its Prosperity Fund’s Digital Access Programme has pledge to support and promote inclusive and sustainable digital access to unserved and underserved communities in Nigeria.

The current stable situation in the Libyan city of Sirte paved the way for renewed regional and international negotiations aimed at reaching a political solution to prevent the outbreak of war.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has warned that repeated explosions from mines planted in and around two of the most populous cities in Libya, Tripoli and Sirte, pose a serious risk for residents.

The diplomatic track ongoing between Turkey, Malta and Libya’s Tripoli government has sparked questions whether Valletta’s diplomatic support can serve as a much needed jumping point for Ankara to break the Libya stalemate, but the European country’s only focus in the talks seem to be limited with prevention of illegal immigration.

Acold wind is blowing between Paris and Ankara since last fall when the French government summoned the Turkish envoy in Paris after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron was suffering from "brain death."