http://www.finanzas.com/noticias-001/todos/20160223/llegada-refugiados-italia-desde-3354436.html
The arrival of refugees from Libya to Italy in 2016 "will not be lower '
More than 150,000 refugees and migrants cross the Mediterranean and arrived in the Italian and Maltese coasts in 2015 and over 80% set out from the Libyan coast, fleeing a country in chaos since the 2011 fall of dictator Muammar Al Gaddafi , who he left Libya in the hands of governments and rival militias, as well as fertile ground for the advancement of terrorist groups allied to Al Qaida or Daesh .
In the first two months of 2016 the flow has slowed by bad weather and dangerous waters in winter, but "if nothing is done immediately" to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in which the country is immersed "in the spring we will see a new influx of migrants and refugees trying to reach the shores of southern Europe through Libya ?, and this year the crisis "will not be lower than in 2015" when more than 3,700 people drowned in the Mediterranean, says deputy special representative United Nations Libya, Ali Al Zatari.
Al Zatari, visiting Cairo, has admitted to ABC that delays in the acceptance of the Government of National Unity Libyan sponsored by the UN are aggravating the humanitarian crisis that already affects 40% of the country's population . Water, food or shelter are some of the basic needs that can not cope with about three million Libyans caught in the conflict.
Many of them are forced to leave their cities: Libya has 500,000 IDPs , mostly in the area of Benghazi and subsisting such as schools or public buildings. At the same time, Libya remains one of the main migratory routes from sub-Saharan Africa (South Sudan, Eritrea?) Or even Syria to the shores of Italy and Malta.
Currently, the United Nations has more than 250,000 registered refugees in Libya , "but the actual number is much higher." And in the middle of the Libyan chaos without opportunity or hope in this North African country, many will be those who try to cross the Mediterranean with the arrival of warm weather, supports Al Zatari.
Security crisis
"The humanitarian crisis leads to a security crisis. If the crisis of refugees and migrants in Libya is not resolved, have a problem in Europe, "insists Al Zatari , who says you have to deal with the needs of the population already in Libya, before they travel to Europe .
"We estimate that if we do not receive sufficient funding, by the end of March, the Libyan hospitals will run out of basic life-saving medicines," added the diplomat. The 60% of hospitals are inaccessible to humanitarian aid while others are bombarded. Just two weeks, a hospital in Derna, east of the country, does suffered the bombing of unidentified aircraft, and not the first. Air strikes occur on Libyan territory, some organized by the Governments of Tobruk and Tripoli, other US (on targets identified as terrorists Daesh), but many others without being claimed by any group or government.
"Any attack or military movements complicate the humanitarian situation in general and the fact that in Libya for four years, has been fighting between Libyan foreign actors or has led to this more than half a million internally displaced persons," says the regarding the Zatari.
Libyan humanitarian crisis affecting virtually all the territory controlled from the internationally recognized government in Tobruk or opponents in Tripoli, as well as controlled areas in the south or Tuareg militias in Misrata. "We received requests for humanitarian aid every week, from all corners of Libya," says Al Zatari, which insists that humanitarian crisis, at the gates of Europe 'is not being served "and" just attracts international attention. " As declared by the United Nations they would need at least 165.6 million dollars to meet the needs of the Libyan population and refugees, but they have only reached 2.7% of the necessary funding.
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