TRIPOLI: The United Nations has evacuated dozens of foreign staff from its mission in Libya due to a deteriorating security situation in the North African country, a UN spokesman said yesterday.
“They will return if the security situation improves,” said Samir Ghattas, spokesman for the UN Support Mission in Libya.
Libya has been in a state of near constant turmoil for three years, with successive governments struggling for legitimacy and unable to tame various armed groups that helped overthrow veteran ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 but are now defying state authority.
Ghattas gave no specific security reason for the evacuation.
REUTERS
