Algeria Provides Humanitarian Aid For Libyans

Security problems continue to cast a shadow on a number of Libyan cities that are near the soil of Algeria, like Ghat, Albarkat, Tahalat, Oubari, and others, where a number of problems, especially those related to providing basic products like food, fuel and medicines.

These cities are living, due to the geographic location, problems in supply, which arrives from the capital and the northern cities, intermittently, while the operations of providing fueling notice permanent problems since long time ago, where the scarcity and speculation return again, due to the absence of refueling, and power supply outages for long periods because energy sources are very far.

These regions are supplied by a national network of higher tuning, while the health conditions are extremely difficult, as the certificates of Libyan nationals from the areas that are adjacent to the Algerian border, reveal on disastrous situation because of their poor infrastructure and the absence of health centers and the scarcity of medicines, which are due to the bad security situation and fears of exposure to the bandits while moving towards the south-western cities in order to get treatment, after the worse security problems that are experienced by the region between the Touareg tribes and Toubou groups, which resulted in the death of many people.

Under these tragic conditions in the Libyan cities, Algeria is seeking, through a number of humanitarian assistance operations, which latest was two days ago, to contribute in reducing the human suffering in the southwestern region of the Libyan soil, as Algeria allocated 6 shipments at spaced intervals, that included medicines, medical supplies, food supplies and other kids’ stuff.

Algerian Red Crescent conducted the humanitarian aid with the help of the Air Forces, which ensured the transfer of such assistance, and support the procedures of opening land border to help reach the aid operations and the treatment for Libyan citizens on the border towns of Illizi (Southern Algerian), where the health services provide treatment before bringing them back to the border between the two countries.