Europe-bound Syrian migrants travel via eastern Libya on a carrier that was recently taken off EU sanctions list. The Libyan National Army’s Military Investment Authority pockets fees to issue security clearances and allows them into the country.
“There are indications that the routes used to reach Libya from Dhaka are direct connections between Dubai and Benghazi or Alexandria and Benghazi,” said European Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson
REVEALED: Intelligence shows how migrant smuggling groups use chartered flights from Damascus to lure Bangladeshi people to Libya for the dangerous boat crossing to Europe
Business governs UN’s ties with U.S. sanctioned Syrian entities
Syrian soldier carrying the UN flag (Designed by Enab Baladi)
On 6 January, the World Health Organization (WHO), an agency of the United Nations (UN), used the U.S. sanctioned Cham Wings Airlines to transport 16 tons of medicines, supplies, and equipment from its warehouses in Dubai city, the UAE, to Benghazi, Libya.
These supplies would be used to support services in health care facilities, as well as strengthen the health response to the COVID19 pandemic, WHO Representative in Libya, Elizabeth Hoff, tweeted.
Ms. Elizabeth Hoff, the #WHO Representative in #Libya, said that the supplies would be used to support services in health care facilities as well as strengthen the health response to the #COVID19 pandemic. pic.twitter.com/LfHe7xT4cX