MSF, Doctors Without Borders, MSF activities in Libya
In 2024, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) provided basic healthcare, sexual and reproductive care, tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment, and mental health support in Zuwara.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) ran a range of activities in Libya, including basic healthcare, tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and treatment, sexual and reproductive health services, and emergency care, for refugees, migrants, and other people in vulnerable circumstances.

We also offered protection services, aiming to identify people with vulnerabilities, in particular unaccompanied minors, and to refer them to other organisations who can meet their specific needs.

 

 

 

Our activities in 2024 in Libya

Data and information from the International Activity Report 2024.

MSF IN LIBYA IN 2024 In 2024, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) provided essential healthcare and support to migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Libya, many of whom have been subjected to extreme violence and abuse.
MSF, Doctors Without Borders, MSF activities in Libya

In 2024, we regained access to a detention centre near Tripoli, one of the places where migrants and refugees are arbitrarily and indefinitely held in the country, and started to offer basic healthcare consultations and protection services once a week.

In the coastal city of Zuwara, we also resumed activities at disembarkation points, to provide emergency medical assistance to people who had been intercepted at sea on their way to Europe by the coastguard and brought back to Libya. In addition, we started to conduct medical consultations in neighbourhoods where migrants and asylum seekers live in precarious conditions. These services are open to both Libyan and non-Libyan patients in the city.

In Misrata, we support the provision of care for TB patients, and have a team working at the only unit for drug-resistant TB in the country.

MSF continues to receive accounts of what the independent human rights investigators appointed by the UN qualify as ‘crimes against humanity’; i.e. migrants being abducted, assaulted, sexually abused, or subjected to extortion, forced labour, and trafficking practices.

We continued to call for the opening of safe and legal pathways for vulnerable migrants in Libya, while assisting with the identification of patients to be registered and evacuated via a humanitarian corridor between Libya and Italy.

IN 2024

 
Overview of the impact of floods in Libya.
Floods

In Derna, MSF doctors and psychologists bring support to the mourning city

Crisis Update 28 Sep 2023
 
MSF Cultural Mediator Nejma helps a survivor on one of the Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats
International Women's Day

Tales of Women at Sea

Patient and Staff Stories 8 Mar 2023
 
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Libya

Hundreds of migrants detained after mass arrests in Tripoli, Libya

Press Release 11 Jan 2022
 
MSF, Doctors Without Borders, Med Sea, 10 found dead
Mediterranean Migration

10 more lives lost on the world’s deadliest migration route

Press Release 18 Nov 2021
 
Women detained at female-only Sorman detention centre, around 60km west of Tripoli, Libya. Detainees receive irregular rations that are distributed once or twice day if not at all.
Libya

Thousands of people detained and left with no medical care after mass arrests

Press Release 6 Oct 2021
 
A woman with burns detained in Sorman at female-only detention centre around 60km west of Tripoli, Libya. She is assisted by another detainee.
Libya

MSF returns to Tripoli detention centres after 3 months of suspension

Latest News 30 Sep 2021