The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Libya said that the number of migrants rescued off the Libyan coast by the Libyan Coast Guard, during this year alone, up to March 31, has reached in excess of 4000 migrants.

It confirmed that the Libyan Coast Guard disembarked almost a thousand individuals to the Libyan port this week alone.

In a report published on Friday, the UNHCR said that more than 8000 people in Tripoli, Al-Zawiya and Misrata received food baskets sufficient for one month, stressing that it continues, in cooperation with the World Food Program (WFP), to support refugees and asylum-seekers who endure a lack of food provisions.

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