{"id":32578,"date":"2020-09-04T09:08:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T09:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tabadul.demo.ly\/en\/u-n-warns-of-libya-arms-build-up-and-virus-surge\/"},"modified":"2020-09-04T09:08:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T09:08:08","slug":"u-n-warns-of-libya-arms-build-up-and-virus-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/u-n-warns-of-libya-arms-build-up-and-virus-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"U.N. warns of Libya arms build-up and virus surge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The United Nations acting Libya envoy, Stephanie Williams, said on Wednesday that foreign supporters of both sides in the civil war were helping them stockpile weapons in breach of an arms embargo and as coronavirus \u201cspirals out of control\u201d in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Libya\u2019s conflict and a blockade on oil exports by eastern forces have worsened living conditions amid a rapid surge in the coronavirus in some parts of the country, with the number of confirmed cases doubling over the past two weeks to 15,156.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cExponential increases are a worrying trend with community transmission now reported in some of Libya\u2019s main cities,\u201d Williams said, adding that the true scale of the pandemic in Libya was likely far higher than recorded numbers showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNearing full collapse after more than nine years of conflict, the health care system is unable to respond,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations acting Libya envoy, Stephanie Williams, said on Wednesday that foreign supporters of both sides in the civil war were helping them stockpile weapons in breach of an arms embargo and as coronavirus \u201cspirals out of control\u201d in the country. Libya\u2019s conflict and a blockade on oil exports by eastern forces have worsened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9271],"tags":[10613],"class_list":["post-32578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-conflictcoronaviruscovid-19libyaoil-blockadeunsmil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}