Authorities suspend 10 international assistance groups offered by assistance migrants

Cairo – Libyan authorities ordered 10 international organizations for assistance in the suspension of operations and close offices in the country, accusing groups to violate local laws by providing African migrants.

The Internal Security Agency announced in a statement that humanitarian organizations violate the law by providing various forms of assistance that would help move to African migrants in the country.

“We confirm that the project of setting illegal immigrants in the country represents a hostile activity that targets Libyan Demographics,” said Isa on Wednesday.

Libya got in the chaos after the NATO upgrade accelerated and killed a long-term dictator Moammar Gadhafi 2011. years. The country was divided, with rival administrations in the east and west supported Rogue Militia and foreign governments.

Libya, which divides six nation boundaries and has a long coastline along the Mediterranean, is the main transit point for migrants that run away from the war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East to see better lives in Europe. The international organization for migration estimates about 787,000 migrants and refugees from different nationalities live in Libya from 2024. years.

The list of assistance groups agencies includes doctors without borders, the Norwegian Council for Refugees, Danish refugee council, Terre des Hommes, care, worked, between the SOS and the Italian organization Cesvo. Many of these organizations provided a key right now relief during Flood repairs in a country killed by thousands of 2023. years.

ISA said that the organizations were suspected of money laundering because they avoided transparency in how financial transfers are made for their projects and how they can exchanged foreign currency for local currency.

Salem Ghaith, spokesman Isa, said during the news that strictly legal action would be taken against non-governmental organizations in addition to closing their offices. He said they illegally provided assistance in the range of cash, clothes, food, accommodation and medical assistance, which helped exposure to migrants initially on their way to Europe.

“As a result, there is no longer a need to risk crossing the sea sea and crossing Europe, turning Libya into the destination country, not transit,” Ghaith said.

IMF, abbreviation for the French name of the doctor without borders, is among the organizations aimed at. It was said in update In February that migrants in Libya face violence and health care was often rejected.

“They live in precarious conditions and subject to a series of violence and abuse, from within and out of detention centers. Protected, exposed to in-patent and trade practices, their access to health care is difficult at the time they desperately needed,” read MSF’s update.

The Libyan Government Agency said the Norwegian refugee council provided illegal migrants with financial assistance, food supplies, cleaning, clothing and medicine materials, or permit to the Libyan authorities.

Similarly, the Agency claims that the relief has international law providing medical services to illegal migrants, and not to hire government health workers, and not using one of the warehouses of organization for storing medicine in a way that does not meet state legal standards for medical storage.