UN condemns weeklong water cut affected more than 2 million in Tripoli area
Libyan Cloud News Agency – Tunisia
The UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator in Libya, Yacoub El Hillo, has deplored the disruption of water and electricity supply in some parts of Libya.
El Hillo said in a statement that more than two million people, including 600,000 children, who live in Tripoli and surrounding towns and cities, are suffering from water cuts for almost a week now.
“The water supply, part of the Man-Made River, was disrupted by a group in the Shwerif area as a pressure tactic to secure the release of family members. All mediation efforts until now do not seem to have produced a resolution to the dispute while millions of Libyans remain deprived of water,” read the statement.
El Hillo stressed that water should never be used as a pressure card nor as a weapon of war.
He added that this deplorable water cut is coinciding with a serious power outage in the western region, also imposed as a result of another individual dispute.
He concluded that such individual acts to collectively punish millions of innocent people are abhorrent and must stop immediately.
