The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said on Tuesday, 378,000 children are in need of assistance and protection in 2018, in light of the “deteriorating humanitarian situation in Libya.”
Abdel-Rahman Ghandour, UNICEF Special Representative to Libya, said 2018 is “a pivotal year” for Libya, and especially for children.
“This is why at UNICEF, we are appealing for $US 20 million to help us scale up our response” for urgent assistance to children, Ghandour said on the UNICEF official page.
UNICEF said among the 170,000-people displaced, an estimated 54 per cent are children with hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants and refugees, a significant percentage of whom are children.